The situation which nobody see bother about is that we should be in the position of one who has to play with all hin cards on the table, while the enemy has the rest of the pack to chose from and his choice of cards, hidden, Such 8 situation does not necessarily spell defeat, still it there is nothing melodramatic or bother sensational about it, no one seems fo Except in the case of invasion—when aeroplanes even in their present stage might be far more useful than captive balloons or kites, because they would be harder to bring down—it is not! probable that aeroplanes would be of any particular service to our army. ly unpracticabl Alter a certain delay to make necessary alterations balks could be so fitted that aeroplanes could rise from them, and these balks could be towed where required. Bat the only way in which the seroplanist could retura with his inform-ion would probably be by dropping into the water and taking his chances of po, being picked up. These chances woald be relatively remote very often, and in any case a scouting cruiser would have more chances of wirelessing any new through quicker.
There are probably several thousand people in this country who would volunteer for service as aeroplane scouts; but an estimate of those actually sble to undertake it at the present moment would reduce ti number to about twelve at the ontsi: Unless of a good knowledge about ships, any information they could sapply would be of an extremely vague natare, so that all told we may write
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