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THE BRITISH AIR FORCE STATEMENT BY MINISTER. NEVER CONTENTED BUT MAKING PROGRESS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 21. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air, Captain H. H. Balfour, speaking in Liverpool, said: “Though our Air Force is young it is second to none.” They might ask, he proceeded, was all well with the air defences of the country and the reply was: “We are never contented but. we are progressing satisfactorily.” Captain Balfour mentioned that the balloon barrage scheme was not intended as a form of air-raid protection for the civilian population but to protect vital industrial targets by preventing selective Ijpmbing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 5
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104SECOND TO NONE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1939, Page 5
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