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DUTIES OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.

ITS IMPERIAL ROLE:

THE POWERS AND LIMITATIONS OF AERIAL FIGHTERS.

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The part played by the Royal Airments of the Royal Air Force, many being insufficiently" air minded Force during the present unrest on now soom capable of clouding: the and incapable of adapting itself to the North-West Frontier of Indin serious issue, as stake. It is as well the use of the air weapon. is of far greater importance than to review the situation. T Army, on the other hand, can no the reports that have appeared in The case for the Air Force is a longer dare belittle the results at the Press may seem to imply strong one. "Sines the third Afghan tained by aircraft, for it cannot (writes Lieut. Colonel H. de Watte- War, with its corollary, Wazi act without the Air Force in ville in the Sunday Times). By ristan campaign of 1910 20 fir forces future, indeed it must rely upon nipping in the bud a grave spasm have played a growingly important it implicitly for specific purposes. of lawlessness and unrest among part in the pacification of the more The aeroplane has more thaTE several of the mountain tribes lawless portions of the Empire. proved its worth in semi-civilised living beyond the administered dis- In the Yemen in the Sudan, in expedition; it has shown itself to tricts, this use of the air arm has Semaldand, a fow aeroplanes bave be both an invaluable means of saved India from a series of severe succeeded in obtaining resulta transport and a weapon of undream. raide by the brigand tribesmen, otherwise unattainable except ated potency in such warfare. The This fact, again has spared the the cost of considerable military Air Force, however, must admit Government of India from becoming effort costing much money. Thean that it bas limitations, that the air involved, in a frontier campaign if achievements are equalled by those personnel can possess no intrinsic not two or three such ventures, of since realised near Aden and on superiority in dealing with refrac the first magnitude. Such an enter the North-West Frontier of India. tory tribesmen, while the efficacy prise could only have ended in the Then there are the noteworthy of collective punishment is strictly loss of many hundreds of lives triumphs of the Air Force in wind- confined to conditions of time and ing up the protracted operations crime. Finally it is clear that the millioris.

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Police Work On Frontiers. These facts cannot fail to inten-

necessary to subdue the Kurdish mountaineers on the north-eastern boundaries of Iraq This is an im- sing record, which leaves out of all account of the recent

events on

the Frontier.

Air Force Limitations.

further the occasion recedes from actual warfare or punitive, opera- tions the greater becomes the dif ficulties of employing air power for purposes of administration and justice..

Three Sallent Points.

sify the claim that is being steadily prossed by the supporters of the Royal Air Force for its extended employment on this nature of armed police work along the Against this cataloguo supporters Three salient features loom up frontiers and in the wilder ter ritories of the Empire. The claim is not now; neither is it based on

these recent developments on the Frontier.

of the Army urge that the Air through the recent discussions. Force cannot operate without the Firstly, the use of aircraft may im- assistance of ground forces; atill teas can they consolidate their hold part to our administration of wild regions a totally new orientation. on any country when pacified. The aeroplane, however friendly its Even now in Iraq over 18,000 armed visit may be, will be coming frain ten stand behind the forty-eight & distance, and may det be re- aeroplanes and four flying-beats of garded as working on the native the .A.F. It is true that the Iraq mind in the same way an a military Army of nearly 10,000 is new and post firmly settled among half- utterly untried; bat the same can tamed natives. Aircraft may too not be said of the 5,000 Iraq levies easily be regarded as an embodi under British offices; neither is ment of a threat or of collective the Iraq gondarrie, exceeding punishment. It should, therefore, 7,000 mon, of whom 3,000re be associated with our other instru.. In practice as well as most econo-mounted and also highly spoken of ments of administration, either au mical in men and money.

In the House of Lords on April Lord Trenchard, late Chief of the Air Staff, argued that the successes of the Royal Air Force, in policing and pacifying semi civilised regions, justified its claim to a wider scope for the perform- ance of like duties in other parts of the Empire. He urged that such a course' must prove most.

a means of transport or as a wei

enforcement of justice that has of "peaceful" penetration and rigidi

charecterised British rule in such countries. In its use a distine- tion must be

belligerent operations" and armed drawn between'

There- upon he was opposed by Admiral In addition there also on there are twelve Im of Cavan, late Chief of the Imperial tenders, not to mention thirty Iraq

the Fleet Earl Beatty, by Earl perial armoured cars with sixteca poa in the last resort, in the scheme General Staff, and by Fiscount armed cars ready to support the Plumer: Lord Lloyd supported the aircraft. Lastly, there is the Royal latter speakers, intimating that we Na

Navy available at the ports. It had hitherto best succeeded, in cannot be said that the Royal Air pacifying Iswless countries by Force is acting single-banded in police work. Secondly; it is lament- system of peaceful penetration and Iraq. In India the whole of the by a fearless dispensation of justice Army is ready to support the Air rather than by methods savouring Fores. more of intimidation or indie criminate use of force.

able to see that there can exist even a flavour of competition for Again, it may he urged that, prior place in this type of Imperial while the scanty population and police work: The matter will not *. Ofae for the Air Force. desert of Iraq favour the use of be solved by alletting this or that That, however, was not the end aircraft, the same might not told to one or another combatant zorvico. What is needed is an of the matter.

Enri Beatty and good in tropical jungle, or forent economical use of the best brains, Lord Trenchard repeated their regions where landing grounds may the best man and the best-instru opinions, yet more emphatically, in be so rare as to hinder air forces ments, for the task. It seems as the columns of a newspaper. Then from maintaining the personal though we may not see this come Sir H. Dobbs, Jate High Commis touch" which is all important in to pass until we have & combined sioner for Iraq, warmly endorsed dealing with an untamed Fopyla staff of the three Services to thrash Lord Trenchard's opinions. On the tion.

out these problems. Thirdly, we other hand, a former Acting Civil

Condlot of Authority.

are left wondering whether the Commissioner in Iraq, Sir A. Ti Where so pronounced a conflict cleavage of opinion now revealed Wilson, diengreed strongly with Sir of opinion prevails it is difficult might not be the prelude to graver H: Dobbs as to the deaitability of to arrive at any very definite con- dissensions as to the predominance such pacification from the air. The clusion. It is clear that we must of this or that Service in time of whole correspondence showed how refrain from all recrimination aris war. Is it possible that this aspect there exists a remarkable lack of ing out of misunderstandings or of the case may not force us, willy- unanimity even among the highest shortcomings dating from the Great nilly, into a Ministry of Defence to authorities on this important matter War. The Royal Air Force should hold the scales between the three of principle. The recent achieve no longer stigmatise" the Army, as1 Servicés !

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