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AIRCRAFT ENGINEER FIPST AERONAUTICAL WEEKLY IN THE W)RLD .• FOUNDED WO9 Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH Chief Photographer JOHN YOXALL Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices; DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telegrams : Truditur, Sedist, London. Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (35 lines). 8-10, CORPORATION ST., COVENTRY. Telegrams : Autocar, Coventry. Telephone: Coventry 5210. GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams: Auto press, Birmingham. Telephone: Midland 29 7 1 (5 lines). 2«0. DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, 3. Telegrams : Hiffe, Manchester. Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. 26B, RENFIELD ST.. GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams : Illffe, Glasgow. Telephone: Central 1857. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Home and Abroad : Year, £3 10. 6 months, £1 Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper. 10 6. 3 months, 15*. 3d. No. 1706. Vol. XL. SEPTEMBER 4th, 1941. Thursdays, One Shilling, The Outlook. Hints from AustraliaN EWS from Canberra states that Lieut. Gen. Sir Iven Mackay, who commanded the Australian troops in the Libyan campaign and is now Com- mander-in-Chief of the Australian Army, may give evidence before a secret session of the Commonwealth Parliament following on criticisms which he is said to have made. Among these criticisms is one concerning lack of co-operation between the Army and the Air Force, and he is said to have declared that co-operation between the two in the Middle East must be developed to the same standard as that of the Germans. Mr. Spender, the Defence Minister, is reported to have said that steps had been taken to ensure that object. This may portend that in the future part or all of the Royal Australian Air Force in the Middle East may be placed, not under the command of the A.O.C.-in-C, Royal Air Force, but under the G.O.C. of the Australian Army there. That would be a big departure from pre- vious practice, but it might be a salutary one. At home .here there is doubt as to whether the Army is assured of sufficient air support when it next takes the field against the Germans, and in particular there is doubt as to whether the British Army is possessed of officers °f high rank who are sufficiently versed in air matters to know just what the Army ought to insist on having. Of course, there are in all Services officers who have passed through the Imperial Defence College, there are Air Force officers on the instructional staff at Camber- 'ey, and there are Army officers on the staff of the K.A.F. Army Co-operation Command. Despite all this, * is not easy to feel confident that all is well with this important matter. The Advance Into IranO NCE more it has been shown how very useful air reconnaissance machines and bombers are to an army. The advance into Iran would not, it was hoped, lead to fighting, at any rate to any serious fight- ing. That hope in the main was justified, and after the Government which had shown itself unwilling to take adequate steps against German infiltration had resigned, the new Prime Minister ordered the Iranian troops to cease from any form of opposition. But naturally there was at first some doubt as to what lay before our troops, and there was in particular some anxiety about the great oil works and the safety of the fairly large British community which is congregated round them. So air-borne troops were sent ahead to make sure of their safety, which they were able to do. Of course, both the columns of British and Indian troops have Air Components with them. One of these columns arrived by sea, presumably from India, and landed at the head of the Persian Gulf near to Hamadan. The other column marched in from Iraq, and the troops in Iraq are now under the Conimander-in-Chief in India, General Sir Archibald Wavell. We may recall that before the war all the British forces in Iraq were under the Air Officer Commanding, but war has brought changes, temporary it may be, and the contingent of the Air Force in Iraq has long ago been placed under the R.A.F. Middle East Command; while since the revolt the Army troops have been under the administration of India. At the moment it is not clear who gave the order for the R.A.F. in Iraq to move into Iran. Iran is a mountainous country, and the Anglo-Indian forces in the north, i.e., at Khanikin, had to traverse
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