Present Strength Equivalent to 34 Squadrous London, Feb. 19.
The Air Estimates for 1925-1926 amount to $15,809,000 ax compared with £15,119,000 for the present year.
'The strength of the Air Force at present is equivalent to 64 squadrons, including 284 at Home, 8 in Iraq, 6 in India and 4-4 in' Egypt and Palestine.
'The estimate provides for a personnel of 36,000, an increase of 1,000, while pay' is increased by £471,000.
The estimate invites Parliament to vote the same salary to the Secretary of State for Air as to the Secretaries of State, thus ing to the arrangement obtaining when the Air Ministry was constituted—Reuter.
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