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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14554, 23 June 1913, Page 6

The Chinese are said to possess secrets in preparation of sweets that astonish our most accomplished confectioners. They know how to remove the pulp from oranges and substitute various jellies. The closest examination fails to reveal any opening or incision in the skin of the fruit. They perform the same feat with eggs. The shells are apparently as intact as when the eggs were newly laid- but upon breaking and opening them the contents consist of nuts and sweetmeats.

The extent to which the industry of aerial navigation is becoming developed in France is hardly rea*teed by any others than those living inside the radius of the aero dube and the national association of that country. Six months ago the builders of aeroplanes in Paris could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Now there are in full operation fifteen factories devoted to the manufacture of materials and the construction of aeroplanes of all sizes, forms, and designs, besides a dozen or more inventors who are making under cover and more or less secretly, individual machines which embody their special and more or less original ideas of what the aeroplane or dirigible aJmhip of the future ought to foe. . -