. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. SEMENT This pamphlet is an extract from the Report for the year 1917, ofthe War Cabinet of Great Britain relating to supply of is reprinted with the permission of Lord Reading, the British Am-bassador. The description given of the difficulties in the way of obtaining asupply of aircraft is so accurate and is so general in its applicationto all countries that it is believed it should be given as wide a circu-lation as possible in America. Its application to the American aircraftsituation is evident if we remember that Great Britain has been a
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. SEMENT This pamphlet is an extract from the Report for the year 1917, ofthe War Cabinet of Great Britain relating to supply of is reprinted with the permission of Lord Reading, the British Am-bassador. The description given of the difficulties in the way of obtaining asupply of aircraft is so accurate and is so general in its applicationto all countries that it is believed it should be given as wide a circu-lation as possible in America. Its application to the American aircraftsituation is evident if we remember that Great Britain has been atwar since August, 1914, and that every resource of the country,famous for generations as the center of mechanical developments, hasbeen applied to the problem of the production of aircraft. Thisenables us to appreciate more clearly the progress made by the UnitedStates in 1917-18. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 69, No. 7. THE WAR CABINET REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1917. J^resenteC to ^Parliament bp eHommanB of t&is LONDON:PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTYS STATIONERY OEEICE. [Cd. 9005.] One Shilling Net. SUPPLY OF AIRCRAFT [The above recital indicates generally what steps have been takenin matters of administration and control.] It should be supple-mented by some general account of the measures taken as regardssupply of aircraft and the development of that supply. In endeavouring to describe the measures taken to meet the aircraftneeds of the Navy and Army, the writer is at once confronted by thefact that the information desired by the country is precisely the infor-mation desired by the enemy. What the country wants to know iswhat has been the expansion in our Air Services; whether we havemet and are meeting all the demands of the Navy and of the Army,both for replacement of obsolete machines by the most modern typesand for the increase of our fighting strength in the air; what propor-tion of the national resources in men, material and factories is beingde
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