SUPREMACY IN THE AIR.
BRITAIN AND JAPAN LEAD
AMERICAN DEVELOPMENTS.
NATIONAL POLICY WANTED
By Telegraph.—Press Asm.—Copyright. Received Dec. 18, 9.5 p.m.
Washington, Dec. 17. England and Japan are most probably the greatest air powers in the world, while the United States is about level with Italy, according to the testimony of the assistant chief of lhe army air service, General Mitchell, before the House investigating committee.
He said the British were trying to lay the foundation of air supremacy as they did with the fleet. Japan owes her excellent air service to her efforts to consolidate flying activities. The United States couid control the sea by air within two years if the services were given yearly appropriations equivalent to the cost of half a battleship.
General Mitchell favoured divorcing the air services from the army and navy, and the establishment of a single flying organisation with a view to developing a national air policy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1924, Page 7
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