War Time in London.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 August 1918, Page 3

War Time in London.

| AEROPLANE DE VELOPMENTS. LO.VJJON, May 27. Air lighting grows more and mere deadly and tlic aeroplanes engaged in it more and more formidable. As one result, it is increasingly obvious that the future battles of the air w<U plav a great part in the ultimate leci r ion of the war. Already it is so;n that strain upon and the loss of flying men and machines demand an increasing and a mammoth energy of training and of building for the due provision of pilots and" observers, and scouts and battle planes, and we hi London have not far to go to see what a marvelloi'S development the construction of aeroplanes has undergone in England alone, where not in one locality but in dozens small and lightly staffed aeroplane works have grown into gigantic concerns covering acres of iields and employing thousands cif men and women. But. still the cry is for more machines, and still tlio aeroplane industry leaps' and bounds with life and power. Par: of that need is daily explaining itself on the western front, where air battles arc continuous and where on some days the opposing giers swarm like flocks rf iuniauding birds. But the fightirg there and its daily toll of gallant liveis only part o 1 the story, of wh'ch th *. rest writes iW? the increasing in fluence upon the struggVs of th" armies * ef masked squadron of aeroplanes that for ever swoop and scatter above the masses of mare,hin;r or resting men. with terrible and until now undreamed-of' efi'oct, and in th' long-distance exploits of bornbirg machines which for ever grow in menace and in bulk. In London wc have reason to know that the enemy air raider now employs a bigger machine and r more ferocious bomb than ever before.. Even so, we are ahead of h:m in the frequency and the deadliness of on - T,\n raids on German towns, our sue •ess in which is to him such a disaster 'hat he is crying for a revision of Ih< whole business of air-raiding. lie !••■ not in the least likely' to get what ly cries for. especially now when he i-red-handed fro™ on.- of the a'' - ' cities of the whole war. the 1 mbin;r of our hospitals far behind •' line". For that, he w'll receive no m"i f ' '

i"tliT from fliers or from (ho : rVics. iv tlu- fiehl. His noiv Oothas liriv ■■ w'ii.t span of 1:?0 foot. lie is proucl r.f t!io*» Cut in spite of tlien ho is ovormnftf"oil in tho air, as fll tlio results of rr 10lit fighting clcarly show. And th;.l he will remain overmastered in shown as clcurly l>y tho tho brainy the skill, and the resolve now fever isilly active in tliis country and i' l Trance upon problems of aeroplane con struetion, mid upon tho art of flying.