The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
ENGLISH AEROPLA HIS SUBJE CITED ID
 SEVERE CRITICISM New AerOplanes Needed for the Offensive Next Spring
DEFENDS WAR ADMINISTRATION
large Number of Smaller Aeroplanes Are Now Being Built--Air Service in Its Infancy at Outbreak of
 the War-Is Growing Rapidly

# London, November 11.-Resuming the
 Rebate in the House of Commons which Has adjourned last night owing to ab- Fence of members of the cabinet, William #oynson-H Hicks, member for the Brentford #ivision of Middlesex, drew attention to Enc condition of the royal flying corps End the naval air service He said there #ras great dissatisfaction connected with 3he naval air service in regard to the Organization and the appointment of a Mhief who knew nothing about aircraft. $bove the heads of those who in fact Fad built up the fabric of the service. # It was important, added the member, <hat England should have large, new #eroplanes for the offensive next spring, "a order to meet the new airships and Few aeroplanes which the Germans were &uilding. He asked why work on an Eng Fish Zeppelin had been stopped in Jan Nary, and whether the admiralty had Dropped the policy of attacking Zeppe- Ems by aeroplanes.
 & Arthur Lynch, nationalist member for 'Kest Clare attacked Lord Kitchener, *sho, he said had blundered in not mov-
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 uestion of munitions and once again in Eervia.
 Incompetence Alleged
 "The blunder in the Dardanelles," he
 dded, was at least blunder of man
 Fho meant to do something. He contended that the war was being Conducted with signal incompetence and hat unless there was a change the coun- otr oierlf to icaG Gfp a would sweep away 70 per cent of the Higher British command, beginning with Field Marshal French, who had been in uommand 15 months and had made no Progress"
 In the last offensive, continued MT. Lynch, the allies broke through the Ger han lines, but in the superior command tecision was wanting to take full ad- Eantage of the moral victory. The gov nrnment he declared had no plan of
 ampaign. The idea of a successful war
 f attrition was absurd The war must
 e won in the field. The men were good
 nd munitions were there. Leadership
 nd direction were lacking
 Balfour Demands Aerial Service ] MT Balfour, replying to the remarks Sf MT. Joynson-H Hicks, said he did not Think it ought to be assumed that the Germans had taken the lead in aircraft <onstruction. The admiralty and war off, Nee desired to improve the construction If aircraft in strength, power and speed For the aerial defense. of London, It #;ould, of course, be an enormous Advantage to have overwhelming forces Bf aircraft which could be hurled against &he invader and become invaders them- Melves, and the government was doing its Best to increase the number of aviators End machines for their use. we are building he said mot an in- considerable number of lighter-than-air Kraft at the moment, largely for the pur- Bose of scouting. The question of lighter Ehan-air and heavier-than1air craft is still Undecided There are many persons who lhink Germany chose wrongly in choosing teppelins."
 \ MT. Balfour pointed out that, although zvhen the war broke out the air service Rsas relatively in it's infancy, it would Be found that during the progress of the War it had not fallen behind that against Which it was matched. In fact, it had Sutgrown it's primitive condition and had be put under the accepted system of | he admiralty.
 The home secretary said that the length If time the Globe would remain under Suspension, depended on the attitude khich the paper thought proper to take Tor what 1t had done. Other papers had bot been treated the same as the Globe because their offenses were not so seri- bus, but declared the home secretary, if kle government found from this time for |vard, any newspaper, be it small or great, making false statement which were obvi- busly prejudicial to the public interests, They would be treated as the Globe had been treated
 William Pollard Byles, who once was journalist and chief proprietor of the Bradford, Observer, complained: Our lib- krties are being taken away from us one by one.
 Timothy Healy. nationalist, and Henry E. Duke, unionist, supported the govern |nent. ..l.& F.al ~