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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

JULY 4, 1938.

REAL

BRITAIN'S PROGRESS TOWARDS

IF

AIR SUPREMACY

Vital Factors in Securing Expansion Of Fighting

Strength and Output

By Major-Gen. Sir Frederick H. Sykes,

Chief Of The Air Staff, 1918-1919

ed that there are no departmental delays, and that employers use their skilled labour to the best advantage Costs will require very close and constant scrutiny if they are to be

It is not easy to obtain accurate merely means venccessary casualties kept at a reasonable figure. It is war should break out, there can be no doubt that the de- estimates of relative als strengths in men and much is to be not important, also, ilust, while reinforc cisive factor will lie in the air. and Mr. Baldwin was badly misled icry to note that a sum is to be spent ing labour, there is no unreasonable The conditions of 1914-1918 no in this matter. The position is never on buildings and schemes to malu increase in cosl.

stalic and we have not caught up the tain the physical well-being of the

VIRTUE OF FLEXIBILITY longer apply. Then, though the leeway lost since the Wur. Nor is it personnel, which is essential for efli- war would never have been won posible to assess what progress other cleney,

will have made in the mean- It is impossible to over-emphasise Turning to ground defence, it is without co-operation from the

the paramount necessity that the de- necessary that anti-aircraft weapons, to the time,

three Services guns and searchlights alike, shall air, victory was due

We are told that in our Metropoli- fence policy of the

be fully co-ordinated. A keep pace with defence in the air. ground forces assisted by the tun Air Force, which is responsible should

at Air defence is four-fold-squadrons Rea blockade. Operations were for Home Defence, there are 1,500 combined General Stail should

mainly two-dimensional. irst-line machines, against Germany's once be set up whose duty it will be for interception, defence and counter- still

ground

services, To-day both land and sea forces first-line strength of 2,500-3,00

are also given to understand that insure against dispersion of effort. are less relatively powerful.

a certain number of our machines are The details of the programme of each balloon barrages; and air raid pre-

Service But two-thirds of our individual

carry this cautions. In all these, especially in

of production

guns. of anti-aircraft by in other winxis, a we will lorgely obsolescent.

more strategy into effect (in the case of

mucit

acceleration is required, and be fought in the me, and that Puwer total are being replaced will win which, having obtuled modern types, and by March, 1939, the air, the character of squadron, muc

Alr must be kept in step. But it must mastery of the air, con proceed to we are promised as entirely modern the type of machines, &c.) must be the supply of material and persoanel

never

be overlooked that the real destroy her opponent's tacturies and force of 1,750 machines, with full left to the Naval, Military or

defence lies in the counter-offensive, arsenals, dislocate her communica- reserves. tions and break down her wall to war

the interception and destruction of the attacking force. The only thing that can save Europe

nd the work in the event of war

FIRST LINE CASUALTIES

We to work out all strategical plans and attack his guns and

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is the neriai supremacy of the 1ritish is said that as at present organised that is, based on the best that selence Jal to ensure that our Defence Forces.

Empire.

A SERIES OF PLEDGES

of

Staff to deal with.

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of great importance that Ja also the strategy and tuetles of the air should be..of "forward" character- As regards productive capacity it

Most important of all, it is essen- and tec

technique can give, Scienting our maximiun output is about 200 inachines per month, with an addi- knowledge, strategy and tacties can- which reconstituted, are turned to the

best not work too closely together. This advantage. We must not only unal per mouths from the shadow is now recognised.

have the best

But we must weapons, Turning again to the question of be able to use them. The character- The Government of the day, with factories when these begin to fune- Against

material, skilled labour for accelerat-

islic

air power is its flexibility, the information at a disposing that on at the end of this year.

to the full. only the Government can have, must this, Germany's production is stated ed productive capacity is the keynote und this must be utillerd

There the whole problem. It is a matter

has perhaps been

an undue take the resquonsibility of dreiding to be 330 per month, with au emer-

for congratulation that the Govern Air Force

tendency to treat the Metropolitan the scale of the Defens Programme eney productive capacity of about

and other air ment has at last decided to accelerate though they were divorced from one And Boo

units as which it considers necessary

But whatever the actual Agurce the production of aircraft. That must be the function of the Gov- emment as a whole, because the pry- Tony be, one thing is certain, and that acceleration thust be as rapid us pos- nolher, and this, with the Increas

make a sluie and must be done in the right ing range of aircraft, is unsound blem involves the appesisement of it is that this country must the circumstances, needla and risks, much greater effort if it is to obtain and covers not only the three tighting so-called parity in the air, or, as it to Services, but the activities of the better described, an Air Force eqund whole nation

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IMPERIAL AIR FORCE

FACTORIES AND LABOUR

In conclusion steps should be taken to any emergenty

The first question is, has the air- to form on Imperial Air Force. Here I would interject that parity

In addition to local defence, we have a and organised 1 1034 Mr Baldwin stated that: does not necessarily imply Brst-line craft industry been

In prepared to effect a large increase in far-flung Empire whose protection is "This Government will see to it that equality in numbers of machines.

The last war found ar power this fighting between eqtally matched air output if labour is made available a vital necessity. in air strength and country shall no longer be in a post- forces, Big calculated that first-line and on a low cost basis? If it were us fighting on a number of subsidiary fronts Gallipoli, Salonika, the Suez country casualties will probably average 50 case of establishing new factories fro tion of inferiority

der the delay wou

Canal, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Even distaner striking within

he may therefore be assumed that the East Afrlen. The Imperial Air Force Fazinot "On Nov. 1 of last year Sir war conditions, airecuft

should

be formed on the principle of boren

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Un Air Ministry has laid its plans on a John Simon defined the objective at turned out under six

to create and maintain an Air tess, therefore, we have a reserve of really large scale, that extensions of dispersal in times of peace and con-

mude,

centration at any threatened point in shudow Force which will form an effective 20 per cent we shall not be able to factories have been

the Empire when war appears to be orders

imminent. deterrent and insurance for peace, keep aur Air Force up to strength as factories equipped and

tu cover and which, in the unhappy event of the end of the first six months of tools and materials

In this organisation there should casuaRies

progressively greatly increased production.

After the existing factories,

be no watertight compartments, and war, would be able to meet a poten- war;

overtake production unless produc-

the should be possible to effect the con- tat enemy on equal terms."

Firms ran lance as a "war potential. reused.

less time than it taites to move forces get the experience and plant neces- In order to maintain our strengthsary in order to turn over to war

It is more than ever neces- by sea, of much character and size as, basing in the field we need a long-rang conditions when the "war potential" cry to regard the Air Force us an Aerial Navy, with similar duties and gard to all relevant circumstances, policy, organised factories and labour, becomes

becomes an urgent necessity. This

functions to those performed by our including the nature of our warp and an unlimited supply

system might well he extended.

Fleet in the past. blems and the extent and availability

The next point Is ta wiil

ensure the of our aggregated

utilisation of the factories by our resources, constitute an effective weapon for our

fatmur resources to the utmost ad- vantage. purposes."

There is a certain shortage of skilled labour, but the problem is really one of

and co-ordination

resources rather Authorised Capital

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On March 10 this your the Prince ve power is commensurately in- shadow factory is of prime impor- centration of a largo Ate Force in far

of the "The policy Minister said: Government is to create an Air Force

But

materials,

of raw

Then there is the question of Ser vice personnel The greater

the complexity of the machines, the mure intensive must be the training of the pliot, crew, and ground personnel.

sunne) and more

These are reasonable words, the public wishes to know to what extent they are being translated inte facts. It avoid the extremes of alarmist rum- material takes longer than it used to onra and undue cumplacency,

equally important to dron training with the new per utlisation of our

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complicated

CO-ORDINATED PLANS

than an

an actual dearth. There must be a large and steady reinforcement of labour on existing contracts in existing factories and the utmost stress must be laid on get-

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RELATIVE STRENGTHS Discussions as to whether air purity As regards the formation of new ting this labour into rapid operation. is definable or how it should be de- squadrons, a note of warning should As we know, the Prime Minister, the fled do not seem to carry us very be sounded in the light of experience employers organisations, and

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If sufficient Are our plans designed Force is even more important than pilng with this question. appear to be: to give us an Air Force of the right numbers. We should accelerate and skliled labour can be made available, J. K. Bousfield, Esq. size and kind, the most effective for expand the units as fast as possible, semi-sitilled and unskilled labour can A. II. Compton, Eng our purpose and equal to any emer- but not at the risk of squadrons be be more easily obtained, but it can on. Mr. 3. H. Dodwell K. 9. Morrison, Ex

M. T. Johnson, Esq. Hon. Mr. A. 2, Shields Kuncy?

to diminish the only be used if the skilled labour, Are we taking all possible ing so diluted as steps to get that Force as quickly as value of the Force as a fighting unit, which is the key, is there.

In all this the most efficient busi- we can? And la our Industry-what It was the backbone of the original has been called our "war potential" R.F.C. which made the expansion of ness organisation and supervision is AMOY

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