The Archive · 1926

No Inbour Monster Yet

What exactly will be the result lof the first General Election held under the new Franchise Law is hard to say for certain, though it is gen= erally believed that the party in power at the time it is carried through will be the victor. One thing tolerably assured, however, is, that the emergence of an immense new labour party—a spectre con: Jjured up in the minds of not a few politicians and others when the Man-Bill was put th ill mot be the distinuishing fenture—Reuter. of defence should be several score miles from the const, "either far at sea or on the Asian mainland, will be only after this line of defence has been smashed that we must turn on such air defences are right above our heads."

lo chides the authorities with having missed the significance of the air lessons the recent war taught and frightens his readers with the bogey of s "serious naional setback" unless the air force is unified under one separate department and is brought up "to its full proper strength."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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