AERIAL ARMAMENTS
BRITAIN’S DEFENCE FORCE
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(Received August 15, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 15. The “Daily Herald” (Labour) states that the Government is planning a hundred machine-gunned aeroplanes to be known as the Home Defence Force, to bo built without delay, if
the Disarmament Conference fails. They will cost half a million, and will have a speed of 250 miles. They will
be quartered in aerodromes, in a circle fifty miles around London. The chief duty is to intercept attackers.
The “Herald” adds: If the Air Convention is not reached at Geneva, there is grave danger that France,
Italy, Japan and other nations will follow Britain’s example, resulting in an air armaments race, recalling the naval race preceding 1914.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1933, Page 5
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