ARMY ESTIMATES.
o GRANT FOR AVIATION. By Telegranh.— rrcsa Acsociitlon-CopytSeht (Kcc, February 28, 9.15 p.m.) London, February 28. The Army Estimates have been introduced in the House, of Commons. Tlisy ' total .£27,800,000. ' Tlio increase of .£170,000 is entirely duo to tlio growth of aviation, on u-liicli .£308,000 is to be spent, as compared with Franco's J!I,280,fl00. The War Office intends to establish a joint Army anil Navy Avktioii School on Salisbury l'lnin. The.whole of the expeditionary forco ivill shortly be equipped with pointed bullet ammunition and re-sighted rilles. No satisfactory automatic rifle has yet, it is stated, been produced, and therefore tho Wnr Office is testing a jicw pattern ningazino rifle..
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 5
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111ARMY ESTIMATES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1376, 29 February 1912, Page 5
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