PAPERSPAST

AEROPLANES IN WAR.

GREAT BRITAIN MOVING FOR-

WARD

[I'EEfiS ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, April 13. The War Office, in a memorandum, states that the Tripolitan war has proved the value of aeroplanes in actual warfare. The Government was impressed with the condition of aviation in Great Britain compared with its progress in other nations, and proposes to- establish a Royal Flying Corps iii addition to the aviation school at Salisbury Plain, and hopes that a considerable proportion of the civilian avators will join the reserve to serve in any part of llie world.

Three hundred and sixty-four flyers are wanted' for ■ th« Army, and 40 fci" the Navy, Only 60 are training at present. The Government proposes that an Air-Committee bo created as an adjunct to. the Committee of Imperial Defence. -

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