WARFARE IN THE AIR.
LORD FISHER'S PREDICTION.
LONDON, Dec. 12.
Lord Fisher, in a letter to the Times, states that he is daily receiving pinprick inquiries as to why he fails to describe th-< future air-navy and submersible warships.
"I don't wish to give other nations my ideas," says the admiral, " but almost any fool could make the plans, they are so idiotically simple.
"That's the beauty of future war— there will be no mountains, rivers, protected harbours, or snow-bound passes; you will just fly above these things and drop your multiple-ton bombs. There will be air types, as there were formerly water types, of destroyers, swifter than eagles, with a speed of 175 miles an hour guaranteed, with the equivalent of battlecruisers. *
"Just when the air is clearly predominant my partner, Seely (who was ViceChairman of the Air Council), is sacked. Isn't it funny V
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17351, 24 December 1919, Page 9
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