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A Scottish Nationalist
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933.
BRITAIN'S NEGLECT OF AIR POWER
AN ECONOMICAL AND EFFECTIVE ARM
BOTH ON LAND AND SEA
(By Major C. C. Turner.)
An old soldier, after a patriotic meeting in a Highland village, 'got]
London. We have to remember that the into a train travelling to Inverness. Great Britain continues to pro-power wielded by every member of Eather unsteadily he sat down beside vide an example in air armament the Air Service is steadily in- Salvation Army officer. For some restriction, despite the fact that creasing, and that any hundred time, be gazed at the officer's uni- other Powers display no inclination pilots who at the end of the war form with profound concentration, to follow it.
controlled an aggregate of 20,000
a
means
At last he broke into speech. For three supremely important. hp to-day control an aggregate of "What's yer, regiment, mant reasons, she must reconsider the 50,000 h.p. This by no Teanna mak it got.”
alposition of the Air Arm in relation completes the estimate, but is men» To which the officer replied: "I to. feets and armles..
tioned merely as an indication of am a soldier of the Lord. I go to By a policy of substitutlen some the onward march of air power. Inverness to fight the Devil; thence of the peace-time duties, not to At the present moment, unfor-
to Aberdeen to fight him again, and mention war activities, of ships tunately, owing to lack of means, then down to Dundee, Edinburgh and of land troops could be under the flying boat is not being deve and Newcastle."
taken by the Air Force at very loped as it might be.. It is true The exhilarated patriot struggled much less cost, and not less of-that an additional flying-bost squa to his feet, and gave the officer a fcctually. This year's Air Estidron is to be formed (it is not [resounding clap on the back. mates statement again bears wit- specifically mentioned in the Ea-
"That's richt, ma man," he said. uess to this fact
timates statement), but this will "Keep on heading the blighter By using the Air Arm to the ex- next year.
not be an important charge, till South."
tent for which it is now fitted do-j In the 50-ton class, now a prac- cision in war would be expedited, ticality, the flying boat has reach Pipers Pilgrimage To The Isle and the horrors attendant partied the stage when it could take
Of Skye -
cularly upon ware of long duration over at much less cost some of the Recently pipers from all parts of The appalling consequences to the Navy. In war, for reconnaissance would be to a large extent avoided. policing and patrol work of the Scotland made a pilgrimage to the civil population, to women Isle of Skye, in the Hebridges, for children, of privations inflicted by tremendous future..
and and many other activities it has a the, unvelling of memorials to the MacCrimmons of Boreralg. They would at least be mitigated.
long-continued naval blackade
A Separate Arm
Great Britain is not taking steps
were for 300 years hereditary
to provide for the major air offen- pipers to MacLeod of MacLeod, and
sive wirich It would be necessary the most celebrated line of pipers A complete recasting of the pro- The bombing aircraft of the Home to wage in the event of a big war.. in Scotland,
blem of Imperial defence would Defence Air Force are avaliable The 86-year-old MacLeod of Mac-,show the way to a big net saving for what is called a counter-of- veighs against the stupidity and Leod, 24th chief of the clan, who through a relative increase of the fensive, but the conception of this. the "vilainy" of the 1930 tariff: lives at Dunvegan Castle, in Skye, Air Force. It is not too much to is altogether Inadequate; and, add- ing; the necessity for sound although about a hundred years tackled in a spirit unprejudiced by visions of the Air Services. Army money as an international re- ago the MacCrimmons quarrelled tradition, the Air Force, instead quirement and "not a domestic with his ancestor and renounced of being smallest of the three Ser Co-operation and Fleet Air Arm, consideration for
one nation their profession. The last of the vices would be given at least have been considered in 1914.
jare on nq bigger scale than might alone"; the gigantic boom in line to hold office was fain Dubb, equality. speculation with which America or Black John. Since then the Two motions shortly to be deference with the free development Findit if the threatened Inter- Cable messages from Washing launched the great depression original MacCrimmon line appeara bated in the House of Commons of civil aviation would reduce our
report the outbreak of upon the world; and the obligato have died out.
will call attention to this matter, air resources below the minimuma strikes and disaffection against tion to recognise a new respon
but it is of the greatest importance necessary for bare existence, the President's new industrial sibility towards foreign coun- codes at the critical stage of the tries as debtors who are prevent thing is not what it was. The that public as well as Parifimant would also shatter that industry
ed by the tariff from paying what popular music of to-day Is de ary opinion. should be well Inform, and cripple design development. propagandiat drive to Beciré universal, adoption" of the codes they owe But upon these scribed contemptuously by older, ed.", .
men en "tinkers' music." It con The Navy is, of course, supreme-
Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 21, 1933, the crudities of American bank-performed the unvelling ceremony, claim that if the problem were nowed to the deficiency, the other di
Iton
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War, in large numbers their worked for the opening of a Flying must be subservient to that of the Training School at Kal Tak older arms.
Aerodrome by the Far East "Baler-ition with either one or both of the
Each arm should act in co-opera- Aviation Company
The School, which is being Dead others. That granted, it remains formed with the approval of the an unescapable fact that the: Air British Air Ministry, will afford Arm can be employed in major A training in flying and the allied Operations · as a separate arm, ground subjects on similar lines wielded for the purpose of effect- to those employed in the Royal
Air Force,... decisive resulta.
Air Marshal's Visit. Big Capabilities.
Air Marshal Sir John F. A The Home Defence Air Force Higgins K.C.B., KB.E., D.SO., The husband of a Paris women squadron judged the absolute mine of Sir W G. Armstrong Whit
still embodies only: 42 of the 68 A.F.C., Chairman of the Board revealed, as she was about to imum, nine years ago, consistent worth Aircraft Ltd, and Air already married. This is known as has a right to demand a statement present in Shanghai, la expect "marry" another man that she was with bare unfety. The country Service Training Ltd., who is at giving the bride away..
Where I was born-you bet,
A coal strike is partly due to things the President. In office sists of marches, reels, and strathe-ly Important.to a country in Great friction between unionists and under pressure, seems to have
Too much of. In the MacCrimmons' time Britain's situation and burdened
HONG KONG AIR non-umionists, although under of the rest of his appeal is not only ceal mor, or "big music the Air Arm, by reason of Its laments, war songs, and satires-with her responsibilities; but now the Industrial Recovery Act, a programme, but an expression
DEVELOPMENTS which legislates for the codes, of Idealism-not, a thought-out was played.
greater operational mobility and Flying School To be Be the one exception from general scheme of action, but a political school in Skye had to study for trictions either of land or sea, is Pupils at the MacCrimmons speed, and its freedom from the res compulsion seems to be the free sermon. And some of it is so
Opened At Kai Tak. dom allowed to any worker to join blind to realities as to be danger took seven generations to make a Failure to grasp this fact and it seven years. It was said that it destined to become the First Arm. or refrain from, joining a unión.Jous. He laude the... American: The great lumber industry is in Constitution as the admiration of
TRAINING VOLUNTEER piper.
is a failure, or, many statesmen, unrest. because "complexities the world; and he says "It is so
sailors, soldiers, and even of sir.
PILOTS have made the formulation of simple and practical that it is
man-is due to the assumption that As a result of negotiations a code difficult." Dairymen in possible always to meet extra-
aircraft can only operate as ad-over a considerable period with New York State held up milk ordinary needs, by changes in
juncts to fleeta or armies, and that deliveries in an attempt to com- emphasis and arrangement with The fen, says a scientist, can go in the last few months of the Great Permission has now been obtain
even when employed, as they were
the Hong Kong Government, pel higher prices by a law of out loss of essential form." without food for two weeks. their own, like that of the far- Such passages must leave the Then why doesn't it?' mers interception of market de President's critics - speechless. liveries in the Middle West Mr Roosevelt's indictment of some months ago. In Chicago American business practice and milk desters refused to abide by of the wasteful overlapping of men wanted; live man only. the Government's licensing orders central and local government man, of course, tell no tales. -whereby recalcitrant trades authorities is severe eno th can be prohibited through re.There is no question of the red fusal of a licence and have
for the most drastic reform' in taken to the Courts the ques and banking practices. Nobody |administrative ...and commercial tion of the producer's freedom in his customary market. This more than the President has action, it is said, will test the of high Customs tariffs, and es trenchently criticised the evils constitutionality of the emer-pecially of the American tariff. gency legislation on the agricul. He calls it "the ghastly jest," tural side. As to the industrial and the root of the whole cur side of the President's pro rent economic evil of his country gramme, observers have already But he has been obliged to for
showing the strength now neces-ed shortly in Hong Kong to con- pointed out the inevitable ten-get those words, The fact: that
mary in the light of the very great fer with the officials of the Far dency of such a dictatorship in some influences have been so
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increase in the importance of the East Aviation Company, who re- community like America, the strong as to compel that augura visitors simply love England. Well
read that many ~ American Air Arm in that period. present the Armstrong Siddeley classic home of unrestricted-en-ill for the success of the whole way don't they les our Government war,, and, certainly nose desire, or The School will undertake the
No right-thinking: person desiren group in Hong Kong and China. terprise (as Mr. Hartley Withof, the present scheme against row, and they'd give em the place, would sanction, at the present mo training of members of the ers calls it) to produce either sectional pressure, for sectional man revalt or flight of capital, or pressure has thus shown that it man who had swallowed his ture. But out of the total expand Corps at special rates. Provision LUCKY
ment, greatly increased expendi- Hong Kong Volunteer Defence both The signs are gravely can turn the President's inten-collar; sind was operated on Inature,ppon defence a larger anm has also been made for the train-3 disturbing President Rocae tions aside. Where business London hospital, At least he knew ought to be spention the air, sinesing of members of the Hong velt's election book! Looking interests cannot successfully, re- where it wanda, se Forward," is now being dis-volt, they flee. If the blanket
by this means the affectiveness tributed. As the Manchester codes cannot be realated or Facts You Did Not and some of the joints in our arconfined to residents of the De Flying Club:41 Pupils of Bhat, defence would be fuprby Guardian" has said: "The Pre-bought off, industrica, resenting
the School will not, however, be sident was elected with a man-them, almply migrate, to: Canada date: so broad that every citizen or elsewhere.
resident was at liberty to look for the has recognised realisation of his own particul [administra programma of national restora himself tion." He has no long this
I wonder if the folks there now Hlave "cleared the mortgage yet? Information Dept.
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