COUNTERING AIR ATTACKS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21411, 1 March 1935, Page 13

COUNTERING AIR ATTACKS

* USE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES COMMITTEE AT WORK IN ENGLAND (Bums!' orririAi hiiimss \ RUGBY. February 28. It was stated in reply to a House of Commons question that the Air Minister (Lord Londonderry) had decided some months ago to appoint a special committee to investigate as a matter of urgency the possibility of countering air attacks by utilising the recent progress of scientific invention. The committee is already at work and in due course its report will be brought before the Committee of Imperial Defence from Air Attacks. The committee includes Mr H. T. Tizard. Rector of the Imperial College of Science, and Professors A. V. Hill and P. M. S. Blackett. of London University, and other distinguished scientists will be invited to contribute to the investigation. GENEROUS GIFT FOR DEFENCE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS THANKED (BRITISH OFFICIAI WIRELESS.) RUGBY, February 27. The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister), referring in the House of Commons to the recent gift of 500,000 dollars by the Straits Settlements towards the cost of Imperial defence, reminded the House that this was the second full contribution made by the colony recently in addition to the annual payment of 400.000 dollars for this purpose. The thanks of his Majesty's Government had already been expressed by the Governor to the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. This generous gift was warmly welcomed, not only for its own sake, but as a striking indication of goodwill and of the spirit of responsibility and co-operation in which the colony approached problems of common interest to the Empire as a whole.