AIR DEFENCE SCHEME

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13269, 26 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

AIR DEFENCE SCHEME

Hjnie < Sct'llen'. •-!"'' he., " l 'lc .'""",'] " i ! House of I ominous (I'll HU the 'i"' 1 " l ' i tho Army Estimate-, The pun pai I Motion «;is the parti. i|i:i'.n n in thi' | Cusaion o| Mr Wi l'<-mhi-:t<'ii liid.n.:. | mew "air" meiuhei i\.r East ll.ilv Mi j ling made ■< " ||i:i: ■"><".'- ~ u '''' ■" i ' ii '' ,ll i faentan; -Lbm. hi* r ' -< ! " '".•; " ""'■ j Mifi«l "*•; ~-■ Wh-i' !;■ ' ';■'' ■ tohes filled i-!i>ui'-v ..ii :!:•■ v:..u! uniiu: i md that'T..;hn, i> up." !'•• ■■!"'-•■ '" ,! ; jilt a ijuai t< a >.l .in ii'iir. .n"l A ' |s ll " led tn with iapt attention. We have the material, whi, Ii on-lit t< immediate 1\ employed in a taid • n svay. Zeppelin eheds. We must <■; •nn'iiaif Uuin. We ha\e ihe material kl-: to initiate air raids on a veiy neat \k." Tims it-marked Mi Poinheitouijing. "1 have left the Royal Na\al An irvice," he addetl, "feeling thai, unless ne man who undci stands tin exaei p>>ion of affairs romes to the House with 9 backing ami authority which only a ntitucucy «.in -i\e him. the Air Ser\ue 11 remain a byword aim 114 members d subject for ulinost tragic mirth in its pekss. futile attempts to dciend tin untry. ' He ihlmitely joined issue with B First Loicl 1.1 the Admiralty when he id that laek ol material was lespomdbic r our present |>olicy of masterly inacrity and deplorable "delay in answefini; e challenge of the enemy for suprcimicv •tho air. Personnel was the mix 01 the lole question, and the appointment ol a in capable of (jiving a <leiinite leadei ip would cairy with it the confidence ,<1 support of every mender of the Air rvice. If we were to strike i'l aer:al lrfare we must strike now. aiul he a;►■ aled to Mi Ualfour to pay no iieed to •called religious scruples and to take his forage in both hands and i.-sue definite den that all the material wo had should 1 employed in raiding the ene;ny coiiujr. (Loud theeis.) We had the material. it too much to ask that our llrand ee>. should cease to be handicapped by ill' spied upon by ZeppelnuT ' He understood Mr Tennant to sny that a had not the machines nor the pilots. 1 all ho very pleased to intioduce the jht boil, gentleman within the next renty-four hours to 100 pilots, and if 1 a to'ld there are not sufheient machines am prepared to lead hitn by the hand that matter, too, and if the right hon. Ottoman says we have not enough •mbe, with the permission of the House Will put them on the Table. (Loud Uffhter.) W.j are liable to be attacked from the r at any moment, and it is possible that is war "may eventually be determined in e air. Therefore, wo have to regain our prcmaey in the air, and 1 urge upon the pa Lord of the Admiralty to insist, not tax months' time, nor six weeks' tune, it, if necessary, in six minutes, that the itterial which i* waiting,, and that the tiXibs which are now being stored, are le for delivery in many places in tierany, aivd should be. delivered forthith." When Mr Billing sat down, memITS cheered loudly, and several heartily naratulatcd him on his most succeseful »3cn effort.