AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1925, Page 2

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I'RtiM IN FNT IRISHMAN Si RICK. NFW YORK. Oei. I. \ telegram trom Pliiludelln t states that while visiting the Indep nd.mcc Hall with other member- ol the Interparliamentary tnion on Wednesday. Richard Aiulcahy. was sirmi'. in tne 1 ...... |,v one oi a group "I m u ami * . „ .... .* -if >4* WO 11 It'll. I* !I 1* 11 w it* >••• * a result this and another di-turbarne. which greeted the delegates . • aim'll! at the rail road station. F.S.A. AIR FoBC’K. W ASll I NGT< IN'. Sept. Att. („,,,,.|-al Miteli'Tl. ol of F.S.A. Air I-'-ii'i-,s. eout inning lit- Testimony be I ore tin. Air Hoard of Inquiry set up bv the (ioveriiment. declared that tile despatch ol i he airship Shenandoah >’ii h i latal interior voyage . oii-lituicd a criminal violation oi the i' csl.-ial l.‘ u provi'llng that, air operation-, overland si,mild l.e controlled by the army air service, and not by the navy, and should be directed by experienced Hying officers. He said that be was not eiii i'ing the men aboard Ha* Shenandoah. hut tile non-living hiingling siM-teiii-s who controlled the flight. The -Shenandoah had carried no parachute, which was like sending a ship to sea without liteboats or rafts. He Leliet<.,i that the Shenandoah was -eut on l>i'o'pagiimla mission to impress tin* attendant- at inimerott- State affairs. General Mitchell made the charge that the destruction ol the old battleships in Washington in lfi'24 was done lev water barges, though ostensibly the exhibition was staged to show the destructive power of aeroplanes, which were not allowed to attack her. the* conveying the impression that the ship was impervious to air assault. He declared that England, after the war. bad effected a unified Air Force, which now «a- efficient, having the

Host pursuant planer- and the fastest .service ships in the world, and making constant improvements. Other T'.S.A. \ir Fore* officers, following General Mitchell, laid stress on the inadequacy of the present equipment for the F.S.A. Air Force, and also on the need for a separate Air Force