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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1986.

AVIATION should be a Blessing:

to-day it is

EUROPE'S CURSE

TELL the House that I have been.made. almost physically sick to think *that I and my friends and statesmen in every country in Europe, two thousand years after our Lord was crucified, should be spending our time thinking how we can get the mangled bodies of children to hospital and how we can keep the poison gas from going down the throats of our people."

Sinco Mr. Baldwin made that statement in the House of Com- mons in 1935, the conselence of the world has received a profound shock.

Italy, a country looked upon by many of us as one of the greatest centres of culture and European civilisation, has broken her inter- national

forbidding agreements the use of poison gas, and poured it indiscriminately from the heavens upon Abyssinian villages,

To-day a few thousand peasants In Wallo are groping their way down the dark years because of a 'dictator, whose name they have never heard of, but whose decree of ruthlessness has put out their eyes.

Wallo is a long way from Char- ing Cross-yes, but not for nero- planes. Is it not time that the peoples of Europe asked their statesmen, "Whither to-morrow?"

N

“ATIONAL struggles con- corn every man in the country, every wife in: every home and every child playing in the street. The acro *plane has diverted the Juli force and fury of war from the battle-ground to the home and nursery, and each one of us has his responsibility for this altua-

tion.

THE author of this article was a flying officer during the war and served with the R.A.F. from 1927 to 1932, being mentioned in dispatches during the leat air operations against the Kurds. He was member of the special committee on International Aviation set up by the League of Nations in 1934, and is the author of a recently published books, "Humanity, Air Power and War."

nerous toy, yet the outbreak of the World War soon demonstrated its value as a ghting weapon.

This fact once realised, the new art of flying found itself promoted from a poverty-stricken hobby of the scientifically minded, or youth- fully adventurous, to the first con- sideration of desperate Govern- ments.

The brains, and wealth of these Governments wore lavished upon the science of flight, and it has well been said that war was the birth of aviation. Aviation, it prostituted to war, will death of civilisation,

be the

The increase In Air Power up to 1018 is well known-the increase in Its destructive powers since that date not yet realised outskir official circles.

General Groves, in his book,

the "Behind

Smoke Screen," writes: Whereas in the late war some 300 tons of bombs were dropped in this country by the Germans, air forces to-day could drop almost the same amount i the first twenty-four hours, and continue this scale of attack In- definitely." This statement has never been challenged.

T

HE same author throws .valuable light upon how such power will bo used in the next war. Ile says: "In Europe, warfare, hither-

by

Captain

Philip S. Mumford

bombers will not be primarily armies or navies, but the life of the civil community.

If acroplanes are brluging this danger to our homes, what counterbalancing protection are we to expect from aeroplanes? Can they defend us, our country or our Government? They can- not do so. To quote Mr. Baldwin onco again:-

cannot

be accomplished unless civil aviation is also removed from the hands of National Govern- menta.

There are no insuperable dim- culties preventing the Govern- ments of Europe from creating an International authority empowered to control all main air traffic.

Such an institution would be given the power to buy out all existing companies.

It would be solely responsible for all aerodromes, pilots and ground staff, the personnel being re- cruited upon an

international

basis, and their training In 'bomb- ing and other forms of military aviation forbidden.

They would also be solely re- sponsible for orders for minterinl. by means of which they could, in due course, influence the whole aircraft industry from a national Into an international basis,

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·OVERNMENT subsidies towards aviation, if and when necessary, would be made only through this International organisation and

"The

acroplane has diverted the full force and fury of war from

the

battle-

ground to the home and the nursery."

national Air Police-much as our rallways keep special police for their own purposes

By this method the national frontiers of Europe could no longer hinder the flight of machines. Aerodromes would be noodlit by night, and machines plying their way, twenty-four hours in the day as is the case in America.

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NDER the present cir- eumstances, national

and military considera- tions have strangled the one great nsset of the aeroplane-speed. Foreign machines may not travel direct routes, because of "stra- tegie" areas and needs, and may not travel at night,

There is no practical reason why the acroplane should not be inter- national, It is only being pre- vented by military prejudices.

Aviation should be a blessing- to-day it in Europe's curse. It will become a bonefit to humanity only when, it is removed out of the hands of the Nationalists and used for world service.

I think it is well for the man in the street to realise that there is no man on earth who can pro- tect him from being bombed, whatever people may tell him. ... The only defence is offence, which means that you have got to kill

thus would no longer have a mili- more women and chlidren

Helsingfors, Jurio 29. tary basis more quickly than the enchy if

or blas. Discipline The pollee of Finland aro search- you want to save yourscives."

within the air world would be ing for a thief who bronks into maintained by their own Inter-stables at night and cuts off the

tails of horses—Reuter.

The only possible solution, the internationalisation of all air power, both civil and military, was not only proposed at Geneva in 1933, but received the support of the delegates of France, Spain. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden,' 'Czechoslovakia, JURO- Alavia and Turkey,

The U.S.A., Canada, Argentina. Japan and Germany offered to give the scheme sympathetic considera- tion. and assistance, and, indeed, salvation might well have been achieved but for the undisguised hostility of the British Air Minis- ter, Lord Londonderry.

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Take a brief survey of the post- tion. In 1014 the aeroplane was -iltile more-than-a-clumsy.and dun-arons the aim of such belligerents--tional glory-at-tho-risk of national-bane-to-be-Alake your next trip-more enjoyable, travelling the President-Lảng-way /--

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will be to bring pressure to bear upon the enemy people so as to force them to oblige their govern- ment to sue for peace."

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