"GERMANY IS LOST."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 8

"GERMANY IS LOST."

BRITISH AVIATION PREPA.RA-

TIONS.

Baron d'Estoui-nelles de Constant, who is -charged with reporting to the House for the Senate sub-Commission on Aerial and Submarine Navigation, says m an article .m the Paris Journal:

I have measured the progress of British aviation by its schools. I shall not [say their number; it would at first appear iricredible. Besides, Englishmen do not like to say what they are doing. They, "bluff, "but m the reverse direc-tion-'they will not go m for braggirfg, and like to astonish their enemies by [stupefying results. I shall only repeat what I say each time I return from England, ."The Germans are lost.") I cannot say what I havo seen m detail, but on the whole I have far the first time seen and thoroughly understood what the British Empire is. I have had" + -he vision, if I may say so, that this Empire m action has only one body and onp soul.

SCOTTISH AVIATION SCHOOL

. ,t ,was the guest of the quite new school of antj-aircraft founded last winter after the example of our old Cazaux School 'qnly twp years old and nearly classical), on the seashore m Scotland. T admire its .material . installation which will bring about other similar organisations more important. In the evening I dined it the. officers' and^pilots' mess. All were volunteers indiscriminately recruited m the great English or Colonial •-schools.

The proportion of Colonials anoeared *o me to "be very liisrh (about one-fourth'i f or one single school. Of 210 present I "ounted 92, r'anad'ana. 16 .Australians. 's New Zealan flers. 7 -Smith .Afvienvi*. and 9 from Tndi'' and China, all tall.'nnrl '^ell built. They have come from everywhere. ,1 qnestionod the I *!* captain and •ie told pip "T am from Vanvnnver. We "i*e ten children — six hoys and four trirls The youngest of mv sisters i* still at --school. Of the nine other children th*" 1 "ix boys are, or have been, on the 1 French front. Three of mv. sisters- are

nurses."