Lord Chatfield assured the House hat note of the components of air defence was being The ngth of the fighting force, he said. s being y augmented, and ili aunter-off ubjected to ad also bee! ually careful scrutiny, and me: irengthen ud Lord Chatfield x ined to build up counter-offensive forces to such strength that thi in conjunction with our and batteries, deter from an esser tracking us at al should unhappily fail to do this. us all necessary means for both attack as Ji as defence "I am convinced, that just nave been able over man y ce o rely confidently on eek out and destroy the anomy, so we Will be able in the ture, with our airmen supported on land by our soldiers, to defend milerly these Islands from air fleets f an aggressor."—Reuter.
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