The callousness of this stirred one's wrath deeply. Taxis are allowed three gallons of petrol daily (the. mileage on this pool stuff is very poor) and as numbers of taxis have been commandered {or the war, many men are sharing a taxi, either by the half day or alternate days. It anas {o reason that a driver must plan his journeys carefully to allow for the return. Also his tips are not proportionate. He gets 3d. for a mile but not 1s, 3d. for five, Under present conditions a taxi-man who makes 30s.a week is doing pretty well And think of the long cold, hours he may wait outside restaurants while my lord: the gossip-writer (the f; one mentioned probably draws at least £2,000 a year) is having a good time inside.
The return of the Imperial Airways liner Corsair, ten months after: she had come down on the river Dangu, 150 miles southwest of Juba and been badly holed, when on her way from Durban, reveals a, we tale of repairs successfully performed in he African bush under seemingly impossible. conditions. The natives were particularly keen on the empty petrol tins. and would do a lot of work for one, but the repairs could not have been managed without the convict labour, at 24 à man per day, supplied by- the Government of the Belgian Congo.
The Corsair was beached and ready to fly again by June, This was done by surrounding: her: with empty patrol tanks, which, after her interior had been stripped enabled her to float.
Much "has been written of late about air warfare, its experience hitherto and its prospects. The first assumption due to the evident superiorityin fighting of both the French and British aircraft was that those of the German were less well built This has been. disproved by examination of the Messerschmitts that have come down behind the Allied lines, which show excellent workmanship. Their defect is that they are more dificult to. manceuvre than the British, French and American machines and' except in the hands of first class pilots are at a disadvantage,
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