IN THE AIR.
ATTACKS ON GERMANY. THE POLICY EXPLAINED. London, Jan. 1. A dispatch from Major-Gene,-./; Trenchard, commanding the Independent Air Force, explaining tlie policy or the attacks on Germany, says: The alternatives were sustained attaeka oa one large centre after another until each was destroyed, or to attack as many industrial centres as possible. The latter plan was ultimately adopted because our forces Were insufficient to carry out the former, which, even with greater forces, would have takpn another five yean to execute. General Trenchard incidentally men' tiong that Group Commander Colonel R. MaJock established in England a depot from which ha intended to carry oat raids for bombing Berlin, tout he only weaired madunes capable of carrying out the work at the end of October, and, although everybody woiiced night cad day to get them ready for the attack, they Were only completed three day# Ibefore the signing of the armistice,—.Aus.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 5
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153IN THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 5
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