BRITISH AIR FORCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12011, 13 March 1920, Page 8

BRITISH AIR FORCE.

Second Edition, i

United Press Association— By Elec trie Telegraph —Copyright.

Received March 18, noon. London., March 11

In the Commons Major Tyron, Under-Secretary for tiie Air Ministry, introducing the Air Estimates, stated that the personnel of the Air Forca had been reduced from 164,000 to 34,000 and the inormal strength would be< 31,500. He paid a tribute to the services of the Air' Force on the north-west frontier of India, in Mesopotamia, Aden Hinterland, Somaliland and Egypt He hoped to have seven .•squad rpns of modern aeroplanes in Eeypt in April. The aerial photographs of the Nile floods had bean most useful. It was proposed that the Air Force have one rigid and three non-rigid airships. The Colonial Governments are acquiring nonrigid airships for patrol and survey t urposes. He expressed pride that / the great enterprises of the Cairo to Gape, Australian, and Indian flights radiated from England.