The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-07
FIGHTERS IN AIR
TO GUARD COAST
Great Britain VIII Have Dou-
bic Defense of Shore Line,
According to Plan.
SCHEME IS OUTLINED
Land Forces and Aerial Fleets
VIII Be Able to Commu-
nicate Constantly.
SCHEME IS OUTLINED
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.
10 The Tribune.

Special Cable 20 The Tribune
LONDON, Sept. 6.-Great Britain is
soon to have double line of coast de
fenses, for the naval and military de-
fepse committee has Just recommended
plan which proposes TO equip every
port or Importance in the country with
aviation stations. and permanent build
ipgs for this purpose are Immediately
TO be erected at all fortified ports,
while large number of aeroplanes
and hydrop.anes have been ordered IN
France.
For the protection of the naval dock
yards, large aviation stations are to he
established at Plymouth, Portsmouth,
and Milford Haven, and at present
special committee of naval and mill
tary officers is engaged in reporting
upon the suitability of sites suggested
in the neiohborhood OF those places.
Careful Preparation.
Each of the aviation controls will be
equipped with an airship for long dis
tance observation, and the aircraft fleet
will comprise both seaplanes and aero
planes. BY this means ii is intended
to establish n complete system of inter
communication in the air between the
land forces and the Fleets at sea in time
Of war.
The coast squadrons will be strength.
ened from the reserve of the royal
flying corps, and these will be indepen-
dent OF the eight squadrons TO be raised
for duty with the expeditionery forces,
The remaining squadrons of the mill
tary wing are to be raised as soon as
the necessary personnel can be trained,
and with this object in View, the class
es at Upavon and East church will he
Inn n ,r,, bltr 1nt fu snr
tificates mt the Central flying school,
both naval and military students will go
to one of the defense stations for
course of flying in seaplanes. so that
the pilots may be interchangeable.
"Duller Than Dull"
Aside from the interminable state Of
unrest in the Balkans our newspapers
have been unable 10 scare up any news
and during my long experience in Fleet
street / have never found that famous
thoroughfare as dull as during these
last weeks since Parliament was pro-
longed. Our only domestic news hss
been a couple days rioting in Ireland,
which no one would have paid any at
tention to at any other time, and it
will be long before I forget the joy
with which the newspaper fraternity
greeted the first kilograms about the
outbreak or war between laMmdnN
hall and Governor Sulzer, followed by
the news of Harry Thaw's escape. We
were dreadfully ANNOYED at his too ear
ly capture and it will be quite long
while before we forgive Canada for
placing him in Jail and suddenly put
ting an end to promising affair.
Hope Still Remains.
Dizziness reigns everywhere through
out the kingdom and nothing is sched-
uled to happen until Lloyd George
leaves his mountain home in Criccieth
and begins his land cam paign, and Bo-
mar Law goes to Dublin to give the
Irish an opportunity TO become ac-
quainted with his peculiar sort of ora
tory, which everybody knows in ad
vance they will find hopelcssly dull,
used as they are 70 the firebrand
speeches of Sir Edward Carson.
II is now definitely settled that
Lloyd George will start bis land cam
paign in October. but In spite Of this
he viii find time TO follow the leader
of the Opposition TO Ireland to deliver
proper counter blasts 20 Bonar Laws
gentle appeals to Irish Unionists TO
prove their loyalty 10 the king by de-
claring n civil war as soon as His Ma
iesty shall have signed the Home Rule
Bill.