FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE
PRIMARY IMPORTANCE: OF FLEET. THE VALUE OF AVIATION. Prn«» Asßocmticv —By Teleerraph—Copyright NEW YORK, October 27. Admiral Hilary Jones, a member of the Navy General Board, speaking at the National Navy Day celebration at Philadelphia, declared that ships, not aeroplanes, were the first line of a nation’s defence. Aviation had' introduced a new and highly important development of naval warfare. It had taken its place as an important element of a fleet. The purpose of a naval air service was to contribute to the success of the fleet in battle, and therefore the fleet’s ultimate exercise of sea power. _ Peace-time organisations must be built up with that object, and with no other m view.—A. and N.Z. Cable .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19623, 29 October 1925, Page 9
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