SHIPS BEFORE AEROPLANES
FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE AMERICAN ADMIRAL’S OPINION NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Admiral Hilary Jones, a member of the Navy General Board, speaking at the National Navy Day celebration at Philadelphia, declared that ships, not airplanes, were the first line of the nation’s defence. Aviation had introduced a new and highly important development of naval warfare. Aviation had taken its place as an important clement in the fleet in the latter’s exercise of sea power, and could not bo separated from it. The purpose of the Naval Air Service was to contribute to the success of the fleet in battle, and therefore the fleet’s ultimate exercise of sea power. Peace time organisations must be built up with that object and with no nthor view.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19441, 29 October 1925, Page 5
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126SHIPS BEFORE AEROPLANES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19441, 29 October 1925, Page 5
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