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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 21st, 1925

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REMARKABLE PROPOSAL BY THE UNIONIST

NAVAL COMMITTEE

IMPERIAL DEFENCE BOARD.

remarkable scheme, embodying sweeping proposals with regard to our fighting services, is likely, I understand, to occupy the serious attention of the Government at an early date, writes the Aviation Correspondent of the Esening Standard,

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yards and depots would be available to all craft of the sea or air, with an enormous Baving in expenditure.

The overlapping that is now so costly and the friction that is generated by keen rivalry would disappear, and the two services that now work independently in

FIRST LORD OF DEFENCE.

The scheme, which was submitted to the the regions beyond the land would act as Prime Minister recently, comes from the partners, with equal shares in the res Taionist Naval Committee, a strong bodyponsibility. consisting of hatween fifty and sixty klem- bers of Parliament. The plea is made that the time has "azrived for the Amalgamation of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force isto one organisation, containing the best elements of each.

It is on nes such as these that the committee has reasoned, and the outcome

their suggested Imperial Defeneo Bontd. The members of this body would he fully representative of each service. Drawn respectively from the Admiralty and the Air Council, they would be in charge of all arrangements for the defence of the country from attacks by air or sen In charge of the new service would be Cabinet Minister, with the title of the

For some years past there has been a de- mand by naval enthusiasts for contro! by the Navy of its own air arm, bat the new scheme is much more revolutionary. U der it the Admiralty and the Air Council would be abolished altogether, and in their place would appear an Imperial | First Lord of Defence. Defence Board, responsible for the de Civil aviation, now a branch of the Air fensive duties now devolving on the Ministry, would be directed by the Board of Trade. It is the Board of Trade, after all, that has charge of the Mercantile Marine, and it would be just as natural for it to be in control of civil aviation

existing bodies for

The contentions of the committee are likely to attract very considerable atten- tion when they are published. Although at the outset they were received with hostility by the heals of both the Ad- miralty and the-Air Ministry, one service, at any rate, now seems to consider the scheme as much more practicable than was originally thought.

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EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY. Whatever hesitations there may be as to the advantages to be derived from so gigantic a change, the members of the Unionist Naval Committee can certainly pride themselves on clearly expressed ideas, that represent thoughtful con tribution to a very important subject.

The argument they put forward is that if there is to be real efficiency and economy in our defensive effort we must tackle in the boldest possible way the problems that have resulted from the radically changed conditions due to the development of aircraft. And in their opinion there can be no satisfactory alternative to the amalgamation of the Navy and the Air Force.

Each of these services, unlike that of the Army, is compelled to operate in territories wherein normally man does not live-the sea and the air-territories which, also, are too vast to be at the mercy of the conqueror. Because of this it is argued, sailors and airmen tave A common interest, of which advantage must be taken. Instead of working in dependently, as they do at present, they must combine, forces.

BATTLESHIPS.

Apart from its contention that the in- terests of sailors and airmen are identical, the committee has been swayed by other factors, one of which it regards as parti cularly regrettable from the point of view of efficiency. This is the exclusion of the Navy from any kind of research into air problems, and the exclusion of the Air Force from any participation ja the pro- blems on ten of the Navy

In consequence there has been, in the opinion of the Committee, a lack of that cohesion which is necessary to completo efficiency in combined operations by sea and air, and an unnecessary expense through the duplication of staff.

In support of this last contention the Committee points to what it regards, as the serious duplication in the running of aircraft carriers through each service be- ing independent of the duties of the other.

NAVY IN THE AIR While it is admitted that the air my thine has altered the inyusion position entirely, it is denied that this makes war- ships obsolete. They must still be able to protect our communications by sea,, and must continue to do so until the range and capacity of air machines is enormously increased Therefore, in the reasoning of the Committee, real efficiency can come only through a fusion that per mits of one authority deciding what is best in the two services that are so closely

lied.

In effect, just as the Navy has been able to progress from sail to steam by a process of natural development, and when necessary to send its vessels under The flying battleship is the logical line the water, without the formation of new of development when regions away from services to deal with those needs, s the land are being controlled to their the opinion of the commitace, the Navy fullest extent. Until the air machine must have the same opportunity of taking came the battleship was not able to follow ita vessels into the air.

its enemy beyond harbour barriers, but,Air development, it is argued, is an given wings, the obstacles to pursuit are essential advance in the case of the removed. If the naxy is to follow the Navy, which can discharge torpedoes from

enemy ships it has chased into harbour, an air vessel as well as from ship, and

is should do so with its own sir machines, instead of having to rely on machines provided by another service,

can use the machines it carries on wär- ships or floating aerodromessascouta' instead of destroyers.

And that other service, working under To ensure the best results obtainable the same directorship, with specialists from an aerial navy it is held that there common to both services, would not be must be an amalgamation of all sea, and faced with the necessity of equipping air effort into une frictionless organisa establishments of various kinds, that are tion, in which all officers and men will so frequently a mero duplication. The have a knowledge of the varied problema. kaval bases all over the world, dock characteristic of each.

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