Some important announcements have been made during the week with
regard to the reconstruction of the Air Services. The most important of these was Mr. Boner Law's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the Government were drafting a Bill for the creation of an Air Ministry. But we may take the events in their order. The papers of last Saturday informed us that Sir David Henderson had been. deputed for special work and Ind ceased to be Director-General of Military Aeronautics. His successor is 'Major-General Salmond, who also succeeds to Sir David Henderson's seat on the Army CounciL It would be very unjust to record Sir David Hendemon's retirement from his post without expressing our sense of the solid accomplishments which are associated with his name. lie has had to build up a new Service while the minds of men were in extreme doubt about the real purposes and capacities of that Service Even while he has held his office the developments of aerial warfare have passed through striking vicissitudes. The effect of unexpectedly rapid mechanical development and of the uadreamt.of improvement in the art of flying has been to make any one who directed aeronautical work feel that. he stood on shifting ground.
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