In this connexion we may briefly summarize Mr. Balfour's speech
in the Commons on Wednesday on aerial raids. He admitted that it was a paradox that the Admiralty should be in charge of the defenoe of London, but it had grown out of the unexpected development of aerial warfare. The supply Of anti-aircraft guns was coming on well, but the strain was Very great in view of the demand for these weapons for purely naval purposes. So far as London was concerned, ho had every confidence in the organizing capacity, energy, and resource of Sir Percy Scott. The analogy between Paris and London, on which some critics insisted, was not a fair one. Much bad been and would be learned from the methods adopted in Paris, but the problem of London, which was not a great military fortress or under a military government, was quite different.
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