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Show MITCHELL TALK IS NOT WANTED - FORT COMMANDER FORBIDS OFFICERS OF-FICERS TO DISCUSS AIR DEFENSE DE-FENSE OF U. S. Brigadier General Castner Lays Down Drastic Rule; Sharp Utterings Make Bolsheviki; Air Witnesses Witness-es Rap Divided Service El Paso, Tex. Discussion of the air defense of the United States was placed on the forbidden list of officers offi-cers by Brigadier General Castner, commander of the First cavalry division div-ision of Fort Bliss here. "Any officer of my command who talks about the air controversy will be court-martialed and put where he will never again be able to talk," Castner declared in a statement to newspaper men, who sought information informa-tion as to the condition of the aerial equipment of the fort. Castner implied criticism to the "talk-policy" "talk-policy" of Colonel William Mitchell, army air critic. "There will be no 'Colonel Mitchell' on the Fort Bliss reservation," he said. "This idea of letting a bunch of officers run around the country criticizing their superiors doesn't make an army. It makes a bunch of bolsheviki in uniform," uni-form," he said. "Discipline is the first thing that a soldier should learn. As long as I am an officer no one is going to talk unless I tell him he may," the general said. |