AIRSHIP SECRETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 44, 14 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

AIRSHIP SECRETS

SOCIALIST M.P.’S ATTITUDE LONDON, April 7. “I am not going to give a pledge of secrecy in any shape or form,” sai<l Mr. Frank Rose, the Socialist MP- *° r North Aberdeen, yesterday, referring to a contemplated visit by him to the Government airship sheds at Cardington, Bedfordshire. In the course of correspondence between the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, and Mr. Rose, the Minister wrote: You must, of course, be free to such use as you think fit of all that you see at Cardington. All that I roust ask you to treat as confidential is any information you may acquire as to tii technical details of the design of tne Air Ministry ships . . . Various lorelgn Powers have shown themselves very interested in the design, and I naturally not prepared at present make them a present of any information concerning it, for which reason, among others, it lias been necessaT classify it as “secret.” Mr. Rose, in a communication wri--ten yesterday, said: . The condemnation of lighter-tna - air craft is to be found in the b*unu - able physical laws upon which the umverse is founded. It may be true the Power responsible for those ia - had not the invaluable advice a«“ guidance of our modern experts, but they actually exist JL. will be found to apply, to Carding l J and its activities in the long run. It is therefore only the technical tails of construction with which i , unacquainted; the rest of the nec€ yjrLi information you have kindly furnis in answer to questions I hav P u the House. . „ h « rtl A Socialist committee b aS lifT formed to report on the airship P Oll6 of the Government.