BRITISH AIR MANOEUVRES
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.
ELEMENTARY EXER CISES.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright, j LONDON, Sept. 29. The Admiralty- and the Air Ministry have issued a joint statement that m view of the newspapers drawing certain tactical conclusions from last week’s Scottish manoeuvres it was desirable to state that the exercises were of an elementary nature designed to exercise shorebased aircraft over the sea and in contact with the navy, also ships’ anti-aircraft defences, for which the naval dispositions were. solely arranged. There was no intention of testing the relative power of the arms in attack and defence of the coast, consequently the military did not participate.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 October 1933, Page 5
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