AIRSHIPS FOR TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 9

AIRSHIPS FOR TROOPS

TRANSPORT TO DANGER POINT

(United Press Association.-Copyright.) (Received 12th March, S a.m.)

LONDON, 11th March. fc>ir Samuel Hoare, in his speech, said that air strategy and policy should be directed to the organisation of Imperial air routes, both for aeroplanes and airships, which would permit a coucentraiion of power in a period which would have seemed incredible a few years n«o Imperial co-operation held out the hope of a reduction, not an increase, in DeiViice expenditure. His own flight to India and hack proved to the world the reliability of the newer types of civil machines for swift, punctual, regular, distant flights'. Two airships were at present being .constructed capable of transporting more than two hundred .armed men. A complete squadron of airships- of this type would enable a concentration from one end of the Empire to the other in a fraction of the time at present taker, to concentrate at any threatened point. In order to maintain the policy of mobility over long distance Empire flights would become a regular part of the training of .Air Forje ofiiccrs.