It is particularly interesting to note that in their remarkable flight both Captain de Beauchamps and Lieutenant Daucourt used machines of British manufacture. We have seen that the officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Service have also to their credit many long-distance flights. Indeed, in all respects the R.N.A.S. have kept at ‘level-fight’ with the R.F.C. The two Services work, however, under different conditions. The following is an extract from a report from Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., then Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet: ‘_Iron Duke_, August 23, 1916. Sir,—With reference to my dispatch of June 24, 1916, I have the honour to bring to the notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the names of officers who are recommended for honours and special commendation. Where all carried out their duties so well it is somewhat invidious and difficult to select officers for special recognition.’ We have seen, however, that many naval aviators have been decorated. In addition to the names already given, mention must be made of Flight-Lieutenant F. J. Rutland, who has been decorated with the Distinguished Service Order for his gallantry and persistence in flying within close range of four enemy light cruisers, in order to enable accurate information to be obtained and transmitted concerning them. Conditions at the time made low flying necessary. This is also a fitting place to record that it has been officially announced that the King has conferred the Distinguished Service Cross on Flight-Lieutenant Charles T. Freeman, R.N.A.S., for the following act of gallantry: On the night of August 2, 1916, he made a determined attack on a Zeppelin at sea, only abandoning the attack when he had exhausted all his ammunition. As darkness was approaching at the time, and his chances of being picked up were problematical, his courage and devotion in returning to the attack a second and third time were exemplary. There is every indication that our airmen are becoming more heroic and skilful each passing day. Touching their great service in dealing with enemy airships, the editor of the _Aeroplane_ writes: ‘One of the commonest and cheapest jeers of certain papers which have adopted anti-Churchillism as part of their political creed has been the constant jibe at the late First Lord of the Admiralty that the defence which he promised against enemy airships has not been forthcoming. It is now many, many months—in fact, it runs into years—since Mr. Winston Churchill informed the world that, if enemy airships ventured to invade this country, they would be met by ‘a swarm of hornets’ which would make them regret that they had ever come.