TOLL OF THE AIR.
FATALITIES IN BRITAIN. EIGHTY-FIRST THIS YEAR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. {Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 9. Captain Purvis, an officer in the Air Force, was killed through his machine stalling at Hawkinge, in Kent. Ihis makes tho eighty-first Air Force fatality during 1926. In the House of Commons Major L. Hore-Bellisha (Liberal, Devonport) asked IT, in view of the increasing number of fatalities in the Air Eorce, the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, would devote a day before the adjournment for a discussion. Mr. Baldwin said this was impossible beiore the House rose on December 15. He was satisfied that'all precautions were being taken. Major Hore-Bellisha said grave misgivings existed in the country on this question. Later he drew attention to the smaller number* of fatalities in the French Air Force, which was treble the size of Britain's force.
Sir Phillip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, replied that the French force was not double the strength of the British, but the number of accidents published by the French in the press was ludicrouslv Underestimated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19508, 11 December 1926, Page 11
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