AIR FORCE REBUKED
ALL PD.RP AND -DIGNITY.
FRENCHMEN -3 TIMES BETTER.
AND LESS EXPENSIVE. (Per Press Association, Copyright). LONDON, July 24. The Select -Committee of the House of Commons on the Air Estimates, expresses the .opinion that .While the flying branch of the Royal Air Force .is well managed, there is a great tendency toward .extravagance and a lack of proper financial control or .efficient organisation in the Ministry itself. As an instance, it points out that a group captain and a chaplain, after 18 years’ service, .are .permitted to have two batmen. No .information is,forthcoming mi this point, beyond the fact .that“as officers advance in rank there is a certain dignity to be kept up.” An Air Marshal 'has three batmen. The Comrorttee also -oomsiented on the entertainment allowance granted as officers. , The report also mentions that whereas it takes 80 men to launch a French aeroplane, 80 are required for a British machine. We employ three men for every .one in .the French Air Force, which costs only a fraction of what the British Force ..doe®.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9877, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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