BRITISH DEFENCES
WOULD MAKE AN ATTACK HIGHLY DANGEROUS S'R KINGSLEY WOOD’S SURVEY. REMARKABLE EXPANSION. (British Official Wireless.) ' RUGBY, July 3. The Secretary of State for Air; Sir Kingsley Wood, speaking in Shropshire, said that, helped by scientific invention, Britain now possessed formidable forms of defence which would make any air attack a highly dangerous operation. “The machines now going into service are certainly as good as the best anywhere in the world,” he declared. He added that some indication of the British efforts could be obtained by the fact that nearly £2,000,000 every week was being spent on aircraft alone.
It is announced that 781 recruits joined the Royal Air Force last week, compared with 436 in the corresponding week last year, bringing the total entry of pilots, observers, airmen and boys since April 1, to 12,265, compared with 4676 in the corresponding period of last year. <
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 5
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