In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 65, 16 July 1915, Page 5

In the Air

NEW BRITISH SCHEME.

THOUSANDS OF AEROPLANES

United Press Association. London, July 15

A number of aeronautical men have launched a movement for the creation of a Ministry of aviation, and the building of the fleet of ten thousand aeroplanes to deluge with bombs the German ammunition works and supply routes. Desbelds, lecturer on aeronautics at Woolwiclj Academy,i is the leader of the campaign, and is supported by many experts.

The plan is to organise public sentiment that England’s salvation can come through the air. They propose to batter down the Rhine bridge and make daily air raids in connection with the trench warfare in France. Desbelds says they , could send one thousand aeroplanes, each carrying five bombs, over Krupp’s munition works at Essen, and would paralyse the German armies. They could also destroy nine bridges over the River Meuse, by which supplies are transported. ‘.‘lf we can smash Krupp’s works,” says Desbelds, “we can hamstring Germany. We want aeroplanes going into and coming from Germany like ants. It wants a daily service to bring destruction to Germany.”