BRITISH AIR EXERCISES.
End Of Mimic Battle. HAVOC OF MODERN WARFARE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copvrlg hr LONDON, August 17. The British air exercises ended in mimic Powers agreeing to accept the mediation of the League of Nations. The pace set by both sides was evidently too hot for a long campaign. Detailed results of the fighting are not yet available, but apparently the Blue Colony achieved the aim of reducing the Red Colony to chaos, but at tremendous cost to its own forces. The exercises vividly illustrated the destructive nature of modern warfare. During three days’ fighting three important towns and a large seaport were rendered untenable, and others were much damaged, but 150 planes were lost in the process. If the war were continued the Blue Colony might not have been able to make good its success. The manoeuvres clearly show that an enemy working at a reasonably short range cannot be kept out of neighbouring territory or prevented from doing serious damage.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18649, 19 August 1930, Page 9
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165BRITISH AIR EXERCISES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18649, 19 August 1930, Page 9
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