"Again, a great many people are very much air-minded these days some of them are foolish enough to Imagine that, because there is a much greater risk' of an attack from the fir, therefore there is no necessity for the defence on the ground. This view which is not held by any responsible person in any of the three branches of military services."
"The England-Melbourne air race." remarked the speaker, "has brought home what the potentialities of an alr attack must really be. That does not say that {t is less important. but "more important, really 9 protect our frontiers' and more and more rely on the territorial force, to provide those skeletons around which we can build up our unhappily." concluded Lord Hailsham, "we should find ourselves called upon to fight again, for the of directly averting aero-Plane attacks, the ground forces are '3s necessary as the air force."—Havas.
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