MILITARY AIR FORCES
’POSITION OF THE POWERS [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Dec. 5. In the House of Commons in the course of the disarmament debate, Sir 8. Hoare, who was Air Minister in the last Government, compared the relative positions of air armaments of the leading Powers. He stated that expenditure on the air had risen since 1925 in Italy by 28 per cent., in France by 92 per cent., and in the United States by 126 per cent., exclusive of the cost of civil aviation. In Great Britain it haa been lowered by 10 per cent. Replying for the Government. Mr A. V. Alexander (First Lord) agreed that the grave risk continued so long as the nations refrained from making mutual progress towards disarmament. As long as such a reserve of possible and immediate inflammable material existed, so long would there be constant danger of an outbreak of •onflagration.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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