Warm congratulations will go t0 the gallant Netherlands airmen' onthe Svards bestowed upon them by their Sovereign. Queen Wilhelmina has Ronoured "Me, Parmentier, Me. Moll trid their technical colleagues. The by. she. has signally honoured the feat contest. which they so. nearly won, After showing such admirable {alities of judgment and engine mastery, It was indeed. unfortunate that the Netherlands airmen should have almost come to. grief within ight of their goal, owing to. the Uinfavourable weather' conditions Happily" the. inhowpltabitity ofthe 'Australian climate was countered by the resourceful hospitality of the People of Albury." The' elaborate Timprovisation.of- means for" guiding the airmen aright and extteating them from their bogey predicament fave ample prot of the' sir minded fey of fe ""Aurlian.nallon, eady' nis. Plesmn erous Presentation of a laurel" wreath. to the victors tad shown the. sporting sympathies of the representative of the Royal Dutch Ait Lines and. the attainment of second. place by: their plucky compatriots is" therefore sli {he more enthusiastically welcomed. Colonel Roscoe Turner and Mr. Clyde Panpourn made 0 very clots ght further rewarded in' the' handicap for third place and' they maybe
event by reason of the dropping of the" Netherlands passengers, before reaching Melbourne. As. was, pointed tout yesterday, the American achieve: ment was exceptionally meritorious that the two airmen were fying over a course with which they alone of the first three pairs were unfamiliar, Five hundred and years. age, ina tenement Farden of' St. Mary's Chapel, West Ininster, which he rented on Christ-nas Be, 1399, Geoffrey Chaucer gave Up. his ite, and tous prepared. his body for burial. in what was subsequently {0 be known as the Poets Gore ta Westmivter "Abbey. fis origin ttle 1s known, save that he was lone of the Chaucers who lived In Cordwainers Street, the vintners, St whom John his father was one-'There 1s doubt even az to the dale his birth and it is only in a deposl= lon made in some Tigation whea {ook place in 1986 that he is describ asedel age xi ans et plus, armeez par xvii ans" His service, come Trenced in noble households, brought Him ultimately into" the king's Play and for a large number of years Fis affairs seem to have prospered, thouuth in the end he was Teduced poverty, by what cause is not clear, Undoubtedly "he had earned royal tention met "only by" his. official Wwork, but also by his writing, but {he fortunes of the Kings themselves were "not remarkably secure nor Mable, and Chaucer suffered in Manner as his royal masters. Would take considerable space to deal With Chaucer's works at any great Tength here, but itis safe to say that he delighted. his own age with the Hones Re gave it, Invested with hus tianity. a grace and strength which placed him amenest the world's great Tat narrative poets. Tt iz more tha Likely: that the part which Chaucer played in the development of the English Tanguage has cen overrates
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