AIR DEFENCES
SHORTCOMINGS IN BRITAIN STAGGERING FIGURES RESOURCES OF THE NATIONS IN FIGHTING PLANES INADEQUATE PROVISION AGAINST RAIDS JBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.29 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. Following up weekend comments on the deficiencies of air raid precautions during the recent crisis, notably the paucity of anti-arcraft guns throughout London, the “Daily Mail” in this connection publishes a page article by Brigadier-General Groves, pleading for unified control to end the air defence muddle. Control is now divided between the Home Office, War and Air Ministries. General Groves declares that Britain has only 1650 first-line aircraft, and France 1500, whereas Italy has 4000, Russia 10,000 and Germany 12,000. Britain possesses only 2 per cent of the number of anti-aircraft guns experts consider necessary for defence. Of this number London has barely 100, three-fourth of them obsolete, compared with the 480 available in 1918. The whole of the air raid precautions are rudimentary and chaotic, being little more than a camouflage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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161AIR DEFENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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