The new Alr Omicer Commanding the Royal Air Force in the Far East, Air Commodore A. W. Tedder fg al present Director of Training at the Air Ministry. He was previous ly. commandant of the Air Armament Group, Eastchureh. Fifty-six years of age last week, Air Commodore Tedder was originally in the Army and served with the Dorset shire Regiment. On transfer to the Royal Flying Corps, during the Great War, he saw active service in France-and Egypt. He was instructors at the Royal Air Force Staff College, Andover from 1929 to 1931 and he has attended courses at the Royal Naval Staff College Greenwich and the Imperial Defence College (1928), He was promoted to his present rank on July 1, 1998, The condition of the rickshaws in Shanghai could "hardly have been better iMustrated than yesterday, when the rain saturated their hoods and screens and caused dirt to drip from them on to the white summer clothes of the passengers. There are few more annoying things than to fet into a rickshaw clean and presentable and to get out of it at the other end of the ride, spotted and begrimed and in no state to be seen in company. Yet that is what happened to at least one person re~ cently, and there can be no doubt that many others duplicated the experience. More weatherproof mater-fois than that used for rickshaw hoods might easily have become saturated In such a downpour as occurred during the week, and it is Perhaps pernickely to' complain' about moisture seeping through. But When the moisture turns into a blackish slime, then the inconveni fence to passengers can be definitely put down to the filthiness of the Wehicle itself. Tt is acknowledged that the rickshaw owners' obstruct ton is largely responsible for this state, but even they should realise that' the satisfied passenger comes again, whereas the man who emerges covered with smears is likely 10 prefer a little clean rain to risking a similar experience.
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