Br 0, Gee London, Oct. 24.
You will have had such copious accounts of the Melbourne race that there is little new that I can say. The performance of Scott and Black a all the more amazing considering that they only took over the Comet on October 18. The week before the start they devoted to really element tary practice, taking off, turning and Ianding, and much of their knowledge of the machine they had to learn on the journey itself. Of the endurance, skill and courage they showed, when groping their way over the dreaded Timor Sea, through cloud and fog, with one engine stuck and useless, too much admiration cannot be expressed. They got their life-belts on, reflecting gloomily that these would bbe little use against the sharks.
The sympathy felt for the Mol-hsiens Is naturally very wide. They had sunk practically all their capital in the undertaking, an outlay for the cost of the aeroplane and expenses of the flight of about £7,500. The £10,000 prize was thus badly needed to set them straight, "But no doubt some benevolent wealthy person will come to the rescue, Of the Comets my aviation cor-
'De Havilland were asked to build an aeroplane that would win the race, and they have done so, Time was' short, Preliminary drawings were not in existence till early this} Thousands of experiments had made, ideas tested and adopted of thrown aside. They embarked on technique of wing construction new aviation in the effort to combine This may not make any difference to the quantity of herrings the USS. undertook to buy from us under the Anglo-Russian trade agreement, but as Russia's trade balance with us. uch in her favour, dhs herring order for Holland naturally excites feeling. The transaction, however, is party a barter basi That is possibly the teton for germany would gladly buy quan-ules "of herring. from "us, but she has not the foreign exchange neces. sary." Mr, Loftus, Member for Lowes.
advance the necessary erediy to the tet ts urging the Government British sellers to" enable them accept payment in German currency, which could be set off in. due course Suainst German exports. "The amount desired is anything up to" £25000, not a large sum to save the industry of thousands of anxious men and women. "But the ural dread "of creating a precedent, whereby other Industries would demand like favouss, may stand in the way.
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