6 APRIL 1918, Page 1

On Monday the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval

Air Service were merged into one body, under the common title of the Royal Air Force. The development of these Flying Services has been one of the wonders of the war. The number of German machines brought down in a single week's fighting on the Western Front in these days greatly outnumbers the total strength of the combined British Air Services at the beginning of the war. It

was time that these Services were joined in an independent body, and assigned a position worthy of their importance. We all offer the new Force our tribute of respect and admiration.