NAVY, “AVI,” AND ARMY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 21 May 1913, Page 4

NAVY, “AVI,” AND ARMY.

“Fate in her merriest mood decreed tliat, just when tlie flermans had announced their huge vote for the air ,service, and while their patriotic Press was adjuring all who knew the •secrets of their aircraft not to ‘hlah,’ the newest and the host of the Zeppelins should have been compelled to descend in the midst of a French cavalry regiment at Lnneville,” says the Observer. “Two things emerge from this incident: on n satisfactory, the other the reverse. Knowledge has 1 been gained which will be of service to the rivals of Ocrmany. and—this 1 is to our address—-it lias been very j : clenrlv demonstrated that a journev i

from the miv airship base at Cux-| haven to Harwich, Sheerness, and other places on our coasts is well within the compass of these machines. This country stands in the greatest danger it has experienced since the Merman Conquest. Great Britain ceased to be an island on tiie day Bleriot landed on our shores. We have not a name for the new third j man. We suggest ‘Avi,’ just to emphasise the fact.” The immediate consideration for the British people in this new business of aerial warfare is that they have allowed their rivals to get far ahead of them in experiment and expenditure, and that it is high time to make up the leeway. Buies and regulations are poor weapons to oppose to airships and aeroplanes in being, is'the opinion expressed by the “Times.”