AERIAL WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 4

AERIAL WARFARE

A SPECIFIC LIMITATION AMERICAN INVESTIGATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, October 1. Tlie Anting Secretary lor War Ims requested Major-general Hines (Chief Secretary'to the Army) to make a survey of the criticisms and suggestions in tho testimony before • President Coolidgc’s Aircraft Board. General Hines is at present In Kansas City (Missouri), where ho will to-day address a convention of reserve otiicers opposed to the separation of the Reserve Air Service from tho other reserve units. He said that the Air Service would bo able to bomb a position, but could not capture it, let alone hold it. Wars, whether on land or sea, would bo won in the future, as in the past, by a comparatively slow but irresistible force able to move from one strategic position to another —to take it, hold it, and move on to another. The Air Service had a specific limitation in a tactical sense and from a mechanical standpoint. Aircraft would always he dependent on favorable weather conditions, and would always require land or sea forces to prefect their bases. Declaring that preparedness ten years ago might have averred American participation in the World War, General Hines said be was pleased to sec the proper expenditure of a few million dollars a vear on adequate preparedness, which should save billions in expenses for the Governments of the future. — A. and N.Z. Cable.