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Show MECHANICS TO TRAIN IN EUROPEAN CAMPS Schools for American Artisans to Be Established in Fraace arid England. Training quarters will be established in England and France for a corps of several thousand mechanics to repair and care for the machines of American airmen. Washington has been asked to send 13,000 bricklayers and carpenters and also a large number of laborers for construction work at the training quarters quar-ters in England. When the work in England is completed com-pleted the construction men will go to FTance to build quarters there. It is inadvisable to mention the number of men who willbe trained in England. It is sufficient that the army js determined deter-mined to have more than enough efficient ef-ficient men available, for American ucces3 in the air will depend primarily primar-ily upon this corps of mechanics. Ftv-ing Ftv-ing schools for Italian aviators will he established in the United states for two purposes. First, conditions in the United St-ntes are better than in Italv, and second, the utilization of training airplanes and equipment in the United States will save the tonnage involved in transportation to the other side. Expeditionary headquarters in France have recommended that the United States government provide for the construction con-struction of schools, the manufacture of airplanes and engines of Italian models and the feeding and housing of skilled pilots and students, the expenses of which will be met at a later day. |