WAR FROM THE AIR.
WIRELESS AND BOMBS
AMERICA’S DISADVANTAGE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. “A plane 100 miles from New York could release an aerial bomb, controlled by radio, that would: b ceertain to hit tiie city,” declared. Colonel W. Afitcliell, the former head of the Uniter! States Air Service., when addressing the. court-martial before which he is charged with insubordination 1 in too freely criticising the Administration’s air policy. “All Governments,” Colonel Mitchell added, “are developing this bomb, but America is- making little progress with it. We must -study how to care for the civilian population if the country be atttacked from, the air. How shall we feed hem if our supply cities are destroyed? “Pilotless planes have been- flown, but not in this country. At the close of the war cities along the Rhine were •just beginning to be bombarded from the, air, and it had a grave effect upon the civilian population.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 December 1925, Page 5
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