FRIENDLY VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 11

FRIENDLY VISIT.

WARM WELCOME GIVEN Yugoslav Prince Regent And Premier Visit Rome. ITALY'S NAVAL STRENGTH. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) ROME, May 10. The King and Queen, Signor Mussolini and members of Cabinet headed immense crowds on the arrival of Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, his wife, Princess Olga, sister of the Duchess of Kent, and M. Markovitch, Yugoslav Prime Minister, who drove through beflagged streets to the Quirinal Palace.

Commenting on Prince Paul's visit the Belgrade official organ, "Politika," says the visit is .expected to result in closer political and economic relations between Italy and Yugoslavia. Admiral Cavagnari, Naval Undersecretary, in a statement ' in the Chamber, said the Fascists would soon possess four 3">,000-ton and four 26,000ton battleships, 19 heavy and 12 fast cruisers, 00 large destroyers, 70 torpedo boats and over 100 submarines. He added that he spoke in accordance with Signor Mussolini's order. There was every probability that the international situation might oblige Italy immediately or in the near future to count on the Navy. FRENCH ORDER. 40 'PLANE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER, (Received 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, May 10. An order has been placed at St. Xazaire for the construction of the air-craft-carrier Painleve, which will be a sistership of the Joffre, carrying 40 I 'planes. SURPRISE MOVE. • I i FRENCH ENVOY IN ROME. (Received 2 p.m.) ROME, May 10. Count Ciano unexpectedly received the French Ambassador. Details of the conversation are not available.

AIRMAN MISSING.

R.A.F. 'PLANES IN SEARCH. Independent Cable Service. (Received 12 noon.) SINGAPORE, May 10. Six Royal Air Force 'planes are searching for a British flyer, Mr. Littleton Hay, who is en route to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur, Malay Peninsula, in a club 'plane. He is now 48 hours overdue. 400 MILES AN HOUR. NEW U.S. PURSUIT 'PLANE. NEW YORK, May 10. Plans are announced for the building of a twin-motor pursuit aeroplane capable of a speed of 400 miles an hour and carrying a 37-millimetre gun, which will fire a hundred I.llb explosive shells a minute. The machine will be capable of destroying with a single shot the largest bombers, and it is believed it will be one of the most effective combat aeroplanes yet devised. FIVE CRASHES. ALL AIR FORCE MACHINES. LONDON, May 10. A total of five members of the Royal ! Air v Force were killed when two ! bombers collided over Norfolk, and a third crashed in the sea off the Lincolni shire coast. i Three men were slightly injured •; when a bomber crashed at a holiday ,' camp at Corton, and three others , J escaped uninjured from a seaplane ' crash, in Plymouth Sound.