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THE SERVICES

SERVICES

ROYAL NAVY

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ROYAL AIR FORCE

PERILS OF GAS

IN WAR TIME

"DEFENCE AHEAD OF

-OFFENCE"

Scientist Replies

To" Alarmists

SUMMER CRUISE OF THE

MIDDLE EAST COMMAND HOME FLEET

Alr Vice-Marshal H. R. Nicholl. Easter leave in ships of the C.B.E.. has taken up the duties of Home Fleet expired on May. 5 and Air Officer Commanding. Royal with Force, Middle East. the summer cruise has begun The Air

Reassuring statements about gas full programme is not yet an-headquarters at Cairo. He suc- nounced, but it will include an ceeds Air Vice-Marshal C. T. attacks on Britain in the event of inspection by the King on June Maclean, C.B, DS.O.. M.C., who war are made by Prof. James who is " Professor of 21 and 22. and a visit to the is to assume command of No. 2 Kendall, Clyde from June 25 in connexion (Bomber) Group at Wyton. Hun-Chemistry at Edinburgh University. In his book, "Breathe Freely." with the Empire Exhibition at tingdon.

published recently (Bell and Sons, Glasgow.

3s Gd).

her

for Invergordon.

and

STATION COMMANDS

at

H.M.S. Ramilies will leave

Wing Commander C. F. Horsley, Declaring that, despite 20 years' Sheerness for Invergordon H.M.S. Royal Sovereign will follow M.C., who has been Senior Per-researches, it is doubtful whether a" week, later. The aircraft-sonnel Starr Omcer at headquar- the number of effective war gases carrier Courageous, with her atta-ters of the R.AF, in India since has significantly increased, Prof. ched destroyers Wren and.Strong-1936, has been appointed in com- Kendall writes: un-

the air station

"Defence has so far outstripped hold, will also leave Portsmouth mand of

Ambala, which accommodates No. offence that it is not going too far) The cruiser Cornwall, now em-26 (Army Cooperation) Squadron to state that in the event of poison and an inter-command wireless gases being used, on however large ployed as a boys' training ship.

scale; against properly equipped will leave Devonport on the same

Squadron Leader. R. T. Taate and disciplined troops in a future day for Lamlash,

has been appointed in command war, the only significant casualties of the RAF station at Nairobi. will be among men 'who have been For over year he has com taken by surprise and have not manded the newly formed No. 223 had time to adjust their Bas-

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NAVAL APPOINTMENTS The following appointments were made by the Admiralty:-

Cdr. (E)-K. A. B. Hutson. to Iembroke, temp. (May 4).

Surgn. Lt.Cdr.-A. L Moorby. M.R.C.S., LR.C.P to Maine (June 13)..

Payr. Lt.Cdr.-H. P. Koelle. to Pembroke (Mny 15).

Chaplain. Rev. A. B. Bird. to Drake for R.N.B.. temp. (June 6).

Lts.-K. C. Ogilvie, to Newcastle (May 4): R. C. Lewis, to Vernon (May 10): R. H. Courage, to Nor- folk (June 8).

Surgn. Lt.-S. H. R. Price, M.B.. to Penzance (May 16).

Payr. Lts.-C. A. Gill, to Dulphin (May 11): E. M. Richardson, to Apollo (May 12)

Sub-L-R. GE G Vernon Map 17).

Eyre

to

station.

(Bomber) Squadron at Nairobi.masks."

and this unit has recently been He belleves it improbable that: expanded to a headquarters and the use of polson gases would be three fights.

SQUADRON LEADER LUCK Squadron Leader H. F, Luck, whose appointment is announced for air staff (maintenance liaison duties at headquarters in London of the new No. 30 (Balloon Bar- rage) Group, is an old boy of the Mercury training ship, and served

the Navy from 1907.

Act Sub-Lts. 1A).-P. R. E. woods. A. H. D. Gough, to Victory for RAF. Gosport (May 18).

resumed by belligerents should another European war break out, and gives the following facts:

Out of the hundreds of thou- sands of chemical compounds known in 1918, only 38 ac- tually reached the stage of use in the field as poison" gases, and many of these proved to be either of no good at all or of very little value.

It is most unlikely that any new polson gases have been dis covered since the war that are markedly superior to phosgene pis an offensive weapon or to mustard K12 2.5 a defensive weapon.

Prot. Kendaji agrees that Lewisite deserves consideration as

Mids. J. W. L Jessop. C. E S. Beale, E. F. Gueritz, to Newcastle (May 1 J. A. Wingate, the Hon M. A. Tennyson, to York (May 9).

Cd. Gunner-R. V. Marchant, to a possible substitute for mustard Durban (April 201.

gas. The first suppiles of this gai W.S.O.-F. Fowler, Cardiff were ready for shipment when the intervened, and they (May 7); W. Pierce, to St. Vincent Armistice

were dumped into the sea (May 9)..

Lewisite, however, is certainly not the super-gas that the alarmista

to

PROMOTIONS Lta-C. J. T. Stephens. H. w. Acworth, to rank of Lt.-Cdr. seny. May 1).

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try to make out.

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