Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, speaking at a Navy League meeting
at Edinburgh on Tuesday, reiterated his demand for a United Air Service. Discussing the last Zeppelin raid, he hoped that in future the Government would so strengthen our defences that no Zeppelin raid could take place over our coasts except at great peril and loss to the enemy. Priority should be given to our Army at the front in respect of aircraft provision, but that ought not to be incompatible with adequately supplying this country with airship equipment. Aircraft were particularly valuable at sea, as the Germans had proved, and if we had had a good service of aircraft for the Fleet the enemy would not have got back home after the Jutland Battle. On the Western Front we had com- pletely regained our predominance in the air, and our aircraft service was not only magnificent but marvellously successful and victorious.
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