Enemy Could Strike

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 9

Enemy Could Strike

HOT PACE IN MIMIC WAR Defenders Never Safe VIVID LESSONS FROM AERIAL FIGHT Times Cable. SO hot was Hie pace set by both sides in the mimic aerial warfare over England that a long campaign was found to be impossible, all-round heavy “losses” being suffered. of the most valuable lessons of the experiment was the conclusion that an enemy, working at reasonably short range, could not be kept out of a neighbouring territory.

United I’ A. —-Ily Telegraph—Copyright Recti. 10.40 a. ill. LONDON, Sunday. The British air exercises ended in the mimic Powers agreeing to accept tho mediation of the League of Nations. The pace set by both sides was evidently too hot for a long campaign. The detailed results of the fighting are not yet available, but aparently Blue Colony achieved its aim of reducing the Red Colony to chaos, but at tremendous cost to its own forces.

The exercises vividly illustrated the destructive nature of modern warfare. During the three days of fighting three important towns and a large seaport were rendered untenable and others were much damaged, but 150 planes were lost in the process. If the war had continued the Blue Colony might not have been able to make good its success. The manoeuvres clearly show that an enemy, working at reasonably short range, cannot be kept out of a neighbouring territory or prevented from doing serious damage.