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VAST EXPANSION OF DEL BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS AM STRIKING POWER ADVANCE
The latest
London, To-day Air Force will be second to none official figures of in strength for defence and coun-
Royal Air Force strength in air ter-attack.
craft and personnel indicate that
the expansión programme launch-
ed in 1935 and greatly augment-
GIANT STRIDE"
Recruitment and the training of
ed in 1936 is making very satis-personnel have made giant strides. Since April, 1935, approximately factory progress.
3,500 pilots have been selected for New service stations and arma-service and 3,100 have begun train- airmen ment training camps already open-ling. The total number of jed total 22 The strength of the entered since that date is 22,300. Metropolitan Air Force home de-This increase, great though it is, fence units, army co-operation is dwarfed by the increase in strik-
and coastal command. squadrons
123 squadrons of 137 per cent
is now crease
expansion strength- with 1,542 firstline
This is approximately planes less than the firs of the Metropolitan strength envisaged for the programme.
an over
end
ing power made available by the creation of new types of British Prefighting and bombing aeroplanes.
These machines built to the mos up-to-date formulae and powered with engines of unrivalled efficiency and trustworthiness are vastly more than their formidable weapons forerunners.
Behind the ultimate total of 1,750 firstline aircraft and 900 or
GREAT SPEEDS
Squadron after squadron is re-
same
so aircraft forming the firstline of cerving bombing aeroplanes cap- the overseas squadrons and the able of great speeds and carrying fleet air arm will be the full war big loads over the distances de- reserves of aircraft, armament, manded by the strategy of home equipment and supplies, sufficient and Imperial protection. At- to justify the claim that the Royal time power in defensive combat is being augmented by the supply of fighters more heavily armed than any of their forerunners and yet capable of speeds of well over 300 miles hourly British Wireless.
BUDGE NOT TURNING PROFESSIONAL
-YET
New York, To-day
Cloudy And Showery
The cool spell continues & temperature at 10 o'clock morning was only 82 degrees, humidity 87 per cent. The
“I have no intention of turning mum yesterday was 91 degrees, an professional," said Donald Budge, the minimum last night 81
Rainfall for the Wimbledon champion and member
twenty of the victorious American Davis hours ended this morning was Cup team, on his return here to-day-of an inch and the total this year The Californían star added, how-now 2.18 inches below average.
The Royal Observatory reported ever, "At least not yet"
It had previously been reported this morning that pressure con PUBLIC AUCTION
that Budge, on his return to the tinues highest over the Pacific to HE Undersigned have received United States, would be offered the south-east of Japan, and it is to sell by Public US$40,000 (£8,000) to turn profes relatively low over China general-
Ty
Local forecast So South-West winds cloudy, showery
Sat
the 7th August, 1937. ncing at 11.00 am,
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FUTURE OF BASQUE CHILDREN UNDER DISCUSSION
London, To-day
The question of repatriation of Basque efugee children in the United Kingdom has been discuss- Yellow Metal Sheets (forled between the Foreign Office and the ational Joint Committee for
ing Lacquers.
of the concerne
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