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Show ENGLISH ARGUE SHIP OR AIRPLANE LONDON, Aug " The question of the aircraft menace and the building build-ing of the two capital ships sanctioned sanc-tioned by the Washington naval agreement, has been raised in tho House of Lords by the Marquis of Linlithgow Why, he aaked should lt be thought tha supremacy in the nlr would give to the belligerent that obtained it the military advantage belonging to corn-, mand of the sea" He doubted the ability of aircraft to carry' any appreciable ap-preciable quantity of the food supplies needed by Britain, or to protect her lines of commerce. Also he doubted that the bomb-dropping or torpedo-firing torpedo-firing airplane would be able to neutralize neu-tralize the capital ship, against whic 1 a 6tream of "interested propaganda" was being directed. Lord Leo replied that Britain s na'al policy was unchanged and tho capital ship was still regarded as Indispensable. |