20 MAY 1916, Page 2

In the House of Commons on Wednesday the Government's plan

for the formation of a new Air Board, over which Lord Curzon is to preside, was laid before the House. A good deal of criticism has, of course, been levelled at the Government for their half- heartedness in endowing the Board only with advisory powers. Supporters, as we are, of a separate Air Department, we realize that this cannot be created till the end of the war, and we conside - therefore that the Government have gone as far as they could.