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Show BRITISH PREPARE FOR AIR WARFARE Sir Archibald Sinclair, British Air Minister, believes that the aerial aer-ial offensive will "paralyze the German air industry and air transport" trans-port" and "clear the road for progress pro-gress of allied armies to Berlin." While admitting that Germany has the greatest concentration of guns and searchlights ever encountered encoun-tered and a fighter force much p-reater fhnn that with which the o RAF broke the enemy in the Battle Bat-tle of Britain, the Air Minister reflects re-flects quiet confidence that British and American air forces will, in the next few months, achieve the colossal task of liquidating German Ger-man fighter defenses. Sir Archibald stresses the magnitude mag-nitude of the British air effort, saying that in four and a half years the Air Ministry has erected one million buildings for air purposes pur-poses and laid down concrete tracks equivalent to a 30-foot road from London to Peiping, China. This program has been possible because British air training has been carried out in the Dominions and the United States. The Minister says that it has not been a pleasant thing for the people of his country to be dispossessed dispos-sessed of their land, houses and crops, often with little notice and no reprieve. Fortunately, he adds, "We have almost reached the end of our territorial demands." From other sources we learn that in the flat areas of Great Britain there is an airfield every four miles. |