AERIAL MANOEUVRES.
SUCCESS OF INVADERS. TREMENDOUS COST ENTAILED. LONDON, August 17. The Air Force manoeuvres in Britain ended in the mimic Powers agreeing to accept, Hie mediation of tho League of Nations. The pace set by. both sides evidently was too hot for a long campaign. The detailed results of the mock fighting aro uot yet available, but apparently tho Blue Land forces achieved their aim of reducing the Red Land to chaos, but at tremendous cost to themselves. Tho exercises vividly illustrated the destructive nature of modern warfare. In the course of the three days' mimic warfare three important towns and a large seaport were technically rendered untenable. Others were much damaged, but 150 aeroplanes wero "lost" in the process. Had the mimic war continued, the Blue Land forces might not havo been able to make good their success. The manoeuvres clearly showed that an enemy working at reasonably short range could not be kept out of neighbouring territory or prevented from doing serious damage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20646, 19 August 1930, Page 11
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