EMPIRE AIR DEFENCE.
430 FIRST LINE CRAFT. United Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, March 11. Sir Philip Sassoon (Under-Secretary of State for Air) said in the House of Commons that 430 first line aircraft will ho available for Empire defence when the 12 new squadrons, provided for in the current* air estimates, were equipped. Mr O. E. Simmonds (Conservative)referred to this as a very slender number, and asked if the Government were relying for the defence of the Empiic on tlic denuding of Home defences, as in the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia.
Sii-vijlip Sassoon replied: “I require notice of that question.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 129, 13 March 1936, Page 5
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101EMPIRE AIR DEFENCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 129, 13 March 1936, Page 5
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