The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-19
GERMAN PRESS
 PRAISES WRIGHT Aviation Owes More to Him
 Than Any Other TAXES MUST GO SLOW Emperor Establishes Fresh Air Home. Empress Health Greatly Bene- fitted by Hamburg Trip-Pro-
 hibit Airship Bombs
TAxIs MUST GO SLOW

Berlin. June 1s.-The death of Wilonr Wright evoked from the German press the most sincere and ungruoging praise accorded to an American for long tune. On his personality as well as his great service to aviation the most appreciatlve comment was made, and many German papers pointed with pride to the Tact that, from his mothers side, he inherited some German blood.
 Only rarely does the German press give as much space to biographies. whether of Germans or Americans, as was de- voted 10 Wrights life, his experiments in flying and his final success. unquall- fled acknowledgment is made of the fact that aviation owes more to him than to any other man. His name will live In history for all time," says typical com ment "He was the pathmaker'
 Herr von Jagow, chief of police of Ber- lin, whose efforts to regulate socialism, women's hats and hatpins, the color or automobiles and the morals of the stage have made him the most discussed man in Berlin next to the Emperor. has is- sueu a new regulation, aimed at the swift taxicabs beloved of the Berlinee heart. No automobiles of more than 10 horse power will hereafter be licensed for cab purposes in Berlin. Herr von Ja- gow's experts having reported that this is all that is necessary for developing the speed of sixteen miles per hour which is the legal limit in the city streets.
 Emperor William has established at his own expense a fresh air home for the children of Berlin worlkmen on the shore os the Baltic sea, where between 1OO and 800 city youngsters may be taken eacil year, in monthly numbers of 150, from the crowded tenements and asphalt streets of the Berlin industrial quarter. All though the Emperor is interested in many charities, this is the first enterprise Tor children in which he has taken the en- tire initiative and provided all the funds from his own private purse.
 Empress Augusta Victoria, whose phy- sical condition this winter was not at all satisfying to her physicians, has re- turned to Potsdam, greatly benefited by her two months treatment at Bad-Nau- helm and Homburg. Whereas 10-minute walk was about the limit of the Empress ability when she arrived at Bad-Nauheim. she can now take promenades lasting an hour or more without any difficulty or particular fatigue, and her physician, pr. Groedel, who made special trip to Castle Homburg to examine her before her return, is we'll pleased with the re- suits of the treatment. The Empress is in her 54th year, three months older than Emperor William.
 Just before the adjournment of the reichstag over the summer the socialists and radicals made motion in the budget committee that Germany take the ini- tiative ntrying to secure an international agreement to prohibit throwing bombs from aircraft of all kinds. Other par ties gave no support to this proposal, and no action was taken. It will be remem- bered that such a prohibition was adopted by the first Hague peace congress for period of five years, but that this was not renewed at the second congress. The prohibition was in force during the Russo Japanese war. but any nation is now free to throw bombs from aircraft without coming into conflict with international obligations. In fact, Italy has been ex- perimenting with bomb throwing in Trip oli and according to the Italian military dispatches the effect upon the Turks and Arabs was exceedingly terri flying These reports, however, have been received in Germany with great soeptieism So far as flying machines are concerned, the German military au- thorities are not attaching any con siderable importance to them for the pur- poses of throwing bombs; they have officially declared that they are encour- aging the development of them solely as means for accommodating an enemys positions. It has also been noted in Germany that the enthusiasm of the French military authorities for flying machines as bomb-throwers has been notably cooled in consequence of recent unsatisfactory experiments there. Ger man military and aerial authorities lay great emphasis upon the practical diffi- culties of using aeroplanes successfully for attacking an enemy's forts or other defences. They say that 1t is well-nigh impossible, too, for a man in an aeroplane to aim a bomb to strike even an extensive target on the ground since the bomb must be thrown during the flight of the craft, whereas the bomb thrower can know neither his height nor his speed with any accuracy, nor could he accu- rately estimate,in the brief time at his disposal the exact angle at which to cast off his bomb, even if he knew his speed and his height. This difficulty Is immensely enhanced, too by reason of the fact that the aeroplanist must fly high enough to be out of range of the enemy's guns.