DANGER TO BRITAIN OF HOSTILE AIRCRAFT.
PROVISIONS INADEQUATE LONDON, June 2G. Astonishment at the great satisfaction with perilously inadequate provisions for protection against hostile aircraft is expressed by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart in the Times. Following are some of the points he makes: — Every load of bombs dropped on Barcelona and on Canton makes Loudon, more air-raid conscious. Early in 1935 the country had only two air defence brigades, comprising a nominal total of only 100 guns. The money devoted to their upkeep cannot have been much over £IOO,OOO sterling a year. The War Office, which is responsible for anti-aircraft defence, has received an average of £40,000,000 a year since the war. The surest way of seeing that antiaircraft defence receives adequate consideration, on which prompt decision can bo made, would be to form a fourth service.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1938, Page 2
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