Russia As An Air Power.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 26, 1913:
Chief of Army Staff Tells Duma of Great Progress Made.
    ST. PETERSBURG. June 25. — The development of the aerial armament of Russia is making immense progress, according to the Chief of the Army Staff, who to-day, in debate in the Duma, related some interesting details of what had been done in this direction.
    He said the Ministry of War would not rest until a flying squad had been established in every army corps. The Government, he continued, had doubled the number of dirigibles recently. It had acquired airships known as "aerial dreadnoughts, " which were provided with machine guns, bomb-throwers, and wireless telegraphy. It was true, he concluded, that the German, army possessed eleven dirigibles but only eight of them came up to the standard of the six Russian army dirigibles.