Ottawa, Mar, 27.
Super-trained young airmen, bent on giving Britain mastery of the air, will be turned out in fast-increasing numbers by the Empire Air Training Scheme this spring and summer.
Thirty-seven flying schools have been opened in Canada since inception of the scheme last April, but this number will be nearly doubled by September, the Canadian "Air Minister, Mr. C. G. Power, told a press conference here. The programme, he said, calls for a further 33 schools to be established between now and then, Already eight months ahead of its original schedule, the training scheme has been accelerated to a point where its three-year cost, originally estimat-
Canada, Australia and New "very cream" of Canada's nel, Mr. Power declared—Reuter, Britain Will Fight for 20 Years if Necessary Lord Halifax Reiterates Confidence in Victory New York, Mar, 27.
Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to Washington, yesterday said Britain was willing to include Germany in the post-war peace "if she is willing to ce-operate sincerely with us."
Britain, Lord Halifax said, did not desire a vindictive peace, "We would like to see world economics so ordered as to relieve the anxiety of all nations over inability to obtain raw materials to facilitate exchanges of goods and Lord Halifax reiterated his confidence in British victory, with American help, and said that "if we have to fight 20 years we will win"—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.