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Show NIGHT VISITS Of AIR CRAfT STIR BRITAIN Government Enact! Law That May Be Hard to Enforce. PBOV1DES "SKY GUNS" FOR TRESPASSERS Germany Has More and Larger Airships Than England. LONDON. JUrch . A popular pu-Unt pu-Unt nowaday, with Contltuntal avlatore would aeem lo be (lying tripe by night ewer England. Dating air pllota in Oar-Many Oar-Many or Franca leave Uialr mooring, at dusk, speed ovar the channal. and than Corel, ovjrr Brltlah I ties and forta. flash, tag lhair lights to inyatlfy and alarm ma people nrrow inrm. lis m Indications of dawn tha adventure cornea to an and. The prowling- bird man heads for home, bouses hla machine before the aun Is well up. and teevee tha officials of England to report his Incursion to tha war offlca In London. Reports of these night vlalta became an genera:, and ware at the eame time no disconcerting, that tha government anally took official action and paaaed a Mil prohibiting the paaaage of air craft offer certain specified areas. Air craft violating this regulation will ba fired on and otherwise warned away. Tha bill Waa Introduced Into the houaa of common com-mon by Colonel Healey, aacratary of War. and It paaaed through all Its stagee 1 at one anting, without dlacuaston. It Wrnt to the lords the day before recess, tad passed that houaa Just as hurriedly, enforcement a Problem. - How tha measure la to be enforced haa aroused considerable Interested speculation specu-lation Ttie hill authorises the proper officers, after giving a prescribed warning, warn-ing, in nre at any air craft Infringing thla law, and to uaa any and every other means to prevent Infractions The gov ernment la providing "aky guna" to reap re-ap these aerial trespassers end It Will also have the services of the naval aero-planea aero-planea ami hydroplanes and tha flying fleet of the army, which conaiata of about a doaeu aeroplenea and three email airships. Experts have very grave douhts whether theee precautions will be sufficient suf-ficient lo prevent the midnight vlalta. Colonel Seeley. In Introducing the bill, eald It waa not air craft belonging to foreign governmente that were aimed at, but mischievous private persona, possibly possi-bly from ovar aeaa, who might Hiover over places where there are combuatlbta atorea, to tha great Inconvenience of the people of the country." Began in October. What gave rlae to the action of the government ware reliable reports. In aome caaaa from army officers, that air craft had been eeen over Dover, Sheer-neaa. Sheer-neaa. Portsmouth and Liverpool, and on at leaat two occaalona as far waat ae Cardiff, always at night. The first vi.it. were paid In October and they have continued con-tinued up to tha present time. At Aral there waa an Inclination to make light of them, or to ascribe tha moving lights and tha noise of the propeller to eome air. hip privately owned in England But Inveetlgatlon ahowed that thla oould not fee, and now the government places the hfame on privately owned foreign air-ahlpa. air-ahlpa. Soma people, however, dlaeard thla assumption as-sumption and declare that at least one of the aerial visitors came from Bor-kum. Bor-kum. tha O.rman fortress nearest tha English oeaat. From Borkura It would be a vary simple matter for a modern alrehlp to paae over the North aea and even right across Baaiand. as In the ease of tha ahlp that (lew ever Cardiff, and be back at her base before morning. TIkms who claim to have avid. nee that thla flight waa made from Borkum go further and aay that the German gov-ernment gov-ernment haa several airships at Emfleri. and that whan a flight over England la projected, one of these craft, la taken to Borkum and the start made from there. Air neeta Compered. According to official returns, Germany had twelve alrahlpe of large dlmenelona st the end of 111. and It le believed that ahs has added to thla number alnoe. There are alee ten privately owned air- hlpa In Germany. Against theee Ens-lend Ens-lend hae three alrahlpe of very small dimension., di-mension., and one large airship now under un-der conat ruction In Germany. England has a greater number of aeroplanes than Germany, however, and when a pro. pectlve battle In tha air la dlacuaaed. Brltlah offleere argue that an aeroplane acting as a deitroyer. could very easily put a night prowling airship out of bualnaea. New Suffrage BUI Agreed On Those Liberal members of the houaa of common, who aupport women', .ultras, .ul-tras, have agreed upan a btu which will be Introduced at the next aaealon of parliament, par-liament, but they have not been cue- oesarUI in isiiins ins uniwmn- Isiooritee, who also believe In giving the vote to women, to act with them. In fact, there la a vary wide difference of opinion among the euffragiat. as to how broadly tha franchlaa ahould be extended In the caaa of women. The bill of the Liberal auffraglets would confer the parliamentary franchise fran-chise an (1) women, whether married or unmarried, who. If they were men, would ba entitled to be registered and to vote in respect of a household qualification: quali-fication: 1. a., aa InhaMtanta or occupier, occu-pier, of dwelling houses; and (1) tha wive, or auch Inhabitant occupiers, residing re-siding on the earn, pramlaea aa their hu.banda. The bill would restrict the franchise to women over H years of age Thle bill would receive the eupport of thoaa member, of the cabinet who aup- h port the vote for women. Various Plans of Mrtfl Of tha other suffraglete In the) houee, tha Unionists would not go sn far aa the liberals and tha Ltaborltes would go furt her. Tha former suppor t what la known as tha conciliation hill, which confers tha vote on womsn property owners or women who ooeupy houses independently in-dependently Tha Tbor party Is out for adult suffrage for both man and womm They point out that either of tha other bills would shut ou.t thousands of working girls and womsn who reside with their parents, or, at any rate, have no Independent place of raaldance. The Lflberata Intend to frame their bill so that amend menta can be Introduced, and the houaa given an opportunity of deciding which. If any. form of suffrage they wlah to extend to women. A squill. May RselaT Tha report has again bean revived that Mr. Asqulth It preparing to resign tha premiership and that before long ne will return to the house of lords. There Is no doubt that ha would like to resign and fiat out of the turmoil of politics, hut t to Just aa certain that ha will not give up, unless, of oourse, forced to do so, until the noma rule bill Anally becomes law, whtoh. asoapt for accidents. H should do in Jday, iu Mr. Asqulth haa pledged himself to do his bast to give Ireland ialf government, and besides he Is anxious that his name should be td en tl fled with tha accomplishment of this measure, as Mr. Gladstone's was with its advancement Some of tha proposals of tha Radical members of hla cabinet ara not altogether to hla liking, and lattsrly he has found It mora end more difficult to curb some of them. 80 that when home rule becomes an ae-catnpllahed ae-catnpllahed fact, and the end of tha present parliament affords the opportunity, oppor-tunity, It Is expected that he wit) band over the rains to some younger man. |