AVIATION
THE BRITISH FORCES
FUTURE ORGANISATION
FIFTEEN MILLIONS A YEAR.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 13th December.
General Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff, has issued a memorandum in which he outlines the future organisation of the Royal Air Force. Mr. Winston Churchill (Minister for. War) states that Cabinet has approved of the proposals in principle.. The expenditure on the Force in the next few years is provisionally fixed at fifteen millions 'a year. The scheme divides the Force into three sections —an Independent Force, a Naval Force, and a Military Force. Eventually the Force will consist of twentyeight squadrons—eight in India, three in Mesopotamia, seven in Egypt, and foulon home service, and seven with the Fleet. An Air Force Reserve will be created on a Territorial basis. The airship fleet for the present will not exceed one rigid and two non-rigid airships.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 7
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147AVIATION Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 7
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