GENERAL TILITY ARM

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3181, 24 May 1932, Page 2

GENERAL TILITY ARM

"Whether it is the discovery of a touring car belonging to the Egyptian State Telegraphs lost in the sandy wastes of the Libyan desert; the giving of a helping hand to a district commissioner in the collection of taxes from semi-nomadic tribes whose sense of public duty is not so keenly developed as that of the British Income Taxpayers; the carrying of water and supplies to an East African trade expedition stranded north of Wadi Haifa with only one small bottle of water left between them; the convey- | ance of supplies and mails to, and moral support of a political agent on tour in the North-West Provinces of India; the location and provisioning of an Italian aircraft forced-landed on the coast of Somaliland; the escort and evacuation of sick members of a column operating in the hinterland of Aden, or the conveyance by ftying boat from Ras-al-Khaimah to Behrein of the Sultan's brother for treatment for eye trouble—at all times and in all places the deus ex machina is a unit of the Royal Air Force."—Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air.