FIGHTING SERVICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 6

FIGHTING SERVICES

APPOINTMENT OF VICE-CHIEFS. ANNOUNCED TN LONDON. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 22. Vice-chiefs have been appointed for lhe three Fighting Services, in the case of the Naval Staff. Vice-Admiral T. S. V. Phillips, Imperial Staff. General J. G. Dill. al. present commanding the First ('i)i’ps in Franco, Air Stall', A.irMarshail R. E. C. Pcirse. , It is officially stated that the ;ip"oialmeuts <.f Vice-Chiefs arc the result of increasing war pressure upon the lime and eiiei'.'’.y of Hie Chiefs ol Staffs. "The effect of air warfare. ' the statement observes, "iiecessi laics a twenty-four hi.tir shift lor all three service.-:. Assuming th. Ti. Hie strain may be prolonged, the Government considered it ei-sentml to relievo it as 1.-’.i- as possible. The holders of the new posts will be members of the Board of Admiralty. Army Council mid Air (Ytincil respectively. They v-ill akc- be available for consultaUoi' 1 by subordinate staffs when thb Chiefs of Slabs themselves are at!cndiiig f meelings or are otherwise engaged. They will be available to attend meetings of the war Cebinef at which the Chiefs of Stall's arc unable to be present. They will thus be a lint: between lhe War Cabinet mid the Chiefs of Staffs. Tiie ari’angements I'i'c not intended !o interfere with the positions i.f Hie Chiefs of Staff's as principal ::d- -\ i;-,e>'-; |o lhe politic:.)! heads ol the