In the Air
ENGLISH M.P.'s. PROPHECY. NAVY TO TAKE SECOND PLACE TO THE AIR FLEET. LOOKING FORWARD TWENTY YEARS! (TJkt»wt) Paw* Abhociatiow.l (Received 12.50 p.m.) London } April 16. Mr Pemberton-Billing, M.P., in a lecture, prophesied that within a few years the Royal Navy would take second place to the British air fleet. He anticipated that the war would be decided in the air within twenty months. Development in aeronautics 'was the forerunner ; *6f universal peace. Britain or another Nation would possess within ten or twenty years 100,000 airships, divided into 100 squadrons capable of devastating the principal cities of the, enemy country in a single night.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 6
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106In the Air Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 12, 17 April 1916, Page 6
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