... of the setting for the inauguration of the Naval Conference in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords enthralled privileged spectators, especially members of the foreign press corps, it did not subdue their sense of humour. The vision of the crimson ...

... known as the Caterpillar Club. It has no organisation of any kind, the honorary secretary is an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and the only qualification for membership is that the member shall have saved his life by descending in a parachute from an ...

... int for a few minutes, returns over it at about 1,500 ft. is astonishing. Mr. Needham, who was, I think, an observer in the Royal Flying Corps during the war, made some wonderful glides in the London club's machine. Altogether that Channel crossing for ...

... and the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet, the Corps Diplomatique, the Empire Press Dele gates, and the Colonial Governors over for the Conference are amongst those who will be seen in the Royal Enclosure. Accommodation has been ar ranged for 150 ...

... cognoscenti of Chelsea, a supremely self-satisfied crew, would be more likely to smack him than to agree with him. 'T'he Cafe Royal announces its in- tention of going back to the fin de siecle atmosphere and gathering unto itself the distinguished Bohe mians ...

... longer be nationally observed. And why should it The Lord Mayor is a figure in the life of every generation, the Great War is not. It is but a grand scale Armada, a giant Waterloo, or Trafalgar. It will die out as a national observance, and it would be prudent ...

... operate. Colonel Strange has a pre-war pilot's certificate dated some time in 1913, and Captain Balfour joined the Royal Fly ing Corps in 1915. Spartan machines have been particularly successful in Canada. The Proof of the Pudding The standard Cirrus ...

... the League of Nations in Geneva, in the guise of official and unofficial observers who make reports, directly or indirectly, to their government. The American unofficial observer is a feature at almost every big European conference. America is not a ...

... turned round to allow visitors to the exhibition to observe the cycle of opera tions. The rated horse-power of this engine is 450 b.h.p. at 2000 r.p.m. It; was the type used on the cruise by the Royal Air Force from England to Australia and back to Singapore ...

... for the Court gloves, 4 guineas for the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, £30 for three dresses to be worn on the first three days there £80 for evening dresses and other clothes for the Royal Military Tournament, the Royal Garden Party, and so on and £80 for private ...

... literally true. The reasons, I say, which prevent me from marrying came from my own observ ation. From time to time I have met a millionaire who though the esprit de corps among millionaires is not so strong as one might wish has asked me to stay. Some have ...

... is pub lished and the fact that he is a nephew of both Lieut. -General Sir John Fowler, R.E., who is Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals, and of Captain Harry Fowler, ex-Master of the Meath, and, incidentally, one of the best men who has ever crossed ...