IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
AIRCRAFT DEFENCES y LORD CURZON^S REPORT. X (Received April 20, 2.15 p.m.) ' LONDON, April 19. In the House of Commons, m reply to a question, Mr Asquith said Lord Curzon had examined and reported on the aircraft situation and had recommended large changes of organisation. Mr Tennanb stated that four pilots had been killed and one .injured m dealing with Zeppelin raids sine© January. The aeroplanes used were eminently sir ted 1o night flyinjy. The accidents ■were . not due to badly-lighted landing places. Mr Tennant stated that companies of non-combatants ' would shortly be sent to France <md employed m road makiTtg 1 , timber cutting, sanitary work rw'd «m-i lending shiiis.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 6
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