BRITAIN'S AIR FLEET.
TO COST £15,000,000 A YEAR.
TWENTY-EIGHT SQUADRONS,
(Received 11.45 a.m.)
LONDON, December 14
I General Tronchard, Chief of the Air StaiT, in a memorandum outlines the future of the Royal Air Force. Mr. Churchill states that the Cabinet has approved the proposals in principle. (The expenditure on the force in the next few years is provisionally fixed at £ 15.000,000 yearly. The scheme divides the force into three sections, namely the independent forces, naval and military. It will eventually consist of twenty-eight squadrons, eight in India, three in Mesopotamia, seven in Egypt, and four in the Home service and seven with the Fleet. An Air Force Reserve I will be created on a territorial basis. The Airship Fleet for the present will not exceed one rigid and two nonirigids.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 297, 15 December 1919, Page 7
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