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Show great want in future will brtn with terrific ter-rific betttlen In the air. and aa that! If the country suffer a raJ defeat in this ftmt battle, the victor will In a few das destroy her ports, her rall-: rall-: way, her munition fartortes and her capital by Intf-nftv bomlNirdment ft om the air. It conatdera that at present Kn-gland Kn-gland Is hoc in a poU Jon successfully to com tut t an air attack and that the a-overoment should appoint a strong com-mission com-mission " to investigate. LONDON FEARS fJEWAIR RAIDS LONDON, Aug. I. London ta . aOU thinking of what might happen to It In case enemy airshipe again ever flew over the city and the picture ta not a pleasant pleas-ant one. The executive committee of the parliamentary air committee haa Knt a letter tp the prime mlniater, la 4 4 which, after referring to what waa accomplished ac-complished by air fighters In the European Eu-ropean war. It proceeds to draw an ap palling picture of the neit ar war. The letter aaya: "The bombs dropped on Ixndon dur- I Ing the last war averaged less than 10 pounds In weight. Homha or- torpedoes ar now carried of 40 pounds eight, containing a mass of high exploalvesu The effect of a dosen bombs - of this character dropped on Leondon can readily read-ily be conceived. There la not merely a poaolbility. but a great probability, that in the evt-nt of war lha country would be 'raided and I .on don and other towns deatroyed by squadrons, or even fleets, of airplanes, traveling at miles an hour, at a height of 2ft.nr feet, silent aa to thetr engine and certainly by night Invisible." The committee irenheslea that - all |