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Pitty and Sixty A Day For Enlist ment in Canadian Air Force Applications are going in at the of fices of the Air Board at Ottawa, at the rate of fifty and sixty a day for enlistment in the new Canadian Air Force. All the applications are from ex-oficers in the Royal Air Force. Preparations are already under way at Camp Borden, Ontario, for the estab lishment of the first training camp of the force. Officers of the new force will train at camp Borden in periods of a month or so at a time. There are adequate facilities there for the training of nearly three thousand men at a time. The equipment in stalled by the Royal Air Force at Camp Borden has been taken over by the Canadian Government for the use of the Canadian force, including eight een hangars and substantial perman ent building. The building of this ly ing base cost the Imperial govern ment $1,000,000 and comprises an up to-date aerodrome and barracks.
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Rivers Gazette

Rivers, Manitoba, CA

Thu, May 20, 1920

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