‘SCIENCE IN THE ARMY’
EXHIBITION IN LONDON MINISTER. ON MODERN TRENDS. IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY. November 18. Opening an exhibition, “Science in ’he Armv.” at the South Kensington Museum, Mr. L. Hore Belisha (Secretary for War), said they no longer measured the povzer and prowess of military forces by counting heads. They measured these by the effectiveness of the weapons the forces were trained to use and by the competence of the organisation for. feeding, clorhing, moving and keeping them in Health and sustenance. The Army would spend three millions sterling in 1938 on scientific research developments, testing des ; gn and inspection. Mr. Belisha referred to recert criticism of the post of Director of Scientific Research at the War Office, whose function would be to co-ordinate all the research activities of the department and to receive suggestion 1 ’ and examine inventions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 7
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149‘SCIENCE IN THE ARMY’ Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 7
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