AERIAL FLEETS.
A BRITISH LEAGUE. A NEW TWO-POWER STANDARD. VIGILANCE NEEDED. (by tklegrapji—press association—copyright.) (Rec. April 6, 10.40 p.m.) , '' 'London,' April 6. A meeting in tho Mansion House-—one oF tho largest ami most enthusiastic, meetings held thero for many years—passed a : resolution supporting tho movchieiit for ail'. Aerial League of the Empire.' "' '■' " " l,! Tho keynote of the speeches was that England must wake up. Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott advocated a two-Power standard,in .airships. fit was cabled Inst month that Mr. Wilbur Wright had accepted the War Office's invitation to visit England, and that tho War Office had purchased r.n aeroplane that was already in London. The War-Office's own aeroplane has met with a scries of mishaps, and Mr. Hnldane has been the subject of some jocular queries in the House of Commons as to'"when the Array aeroplane will bo iiblb to fly "''V British naval airship, fitted with a it! h.p, motor, is being constructed" at Portsmouth.] ■'
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 7
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157AERIAL FLEETS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 7
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