ITALY AND GERMANY lIFY AIR SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 9

ITALY AND GERMANY lIFY AIR SERVICES.

LEADERS CONFER.

Interchange Of Machines And Men Possible.

ECONOMIC UNITY ALSO.

Uuited. Press Association.—Copyright,

(Received 12 noon.)

LOXDOX, May 28

"The Tiroes" Rome representative says Signor Mussolini and Lieu-tenant-General Milch and General Valle, German and Italian Air Undersecretaries respectively, agreed to unify types of aeroplanes in each country so as to enable an interchange of pilots, machines, arms and bombs.

Germany is understood to have promised to supply Italy with steel for aircraft production. The plan laid down in 1937 for expansion of the Italian Air Force is incomplete owing to the Spanish war requirements, but pilots, ground staffs, aerodromes and barracks are not lacking. Another instance of contact between Germans and Italians was the inauguration of an ossuary at Tolmino, in Gorizo, containing the remains of Germans who fell in the Great War. German ex-servicemeu were present for the occasion. Arrangements are being completed for the interchange of Italian and German farmers. " "The Times" Berlin correspondent says that Italo-German committees for economic relations have concluded a number of agreements, known to be directed toward a common economic programme. j This is in accordance with the military alliance which envisaged the closest Commercial and industrial relations.

A German-Polish committee has fixed exports from Poland and Danzig to the Reich for the next three months, and lias announced that some Danzig questions have also been settled.

GREAT OVATION. Khaki-Dressed Girls Carrying Fixed Bayonets. FASCIST WOMEN'S PARADE. Independent Cable Service. (Received 12 noon.) ROME, May 28. Seventy thousand Fascist women, in massed and military formations, marched past II Duce on* Via del Impero. A cohort of helmeted, khaki-dreseed girls carrying rifles and fixed bayonets received a special ovation from the crowd. The parade finished up with a complete Red Cross division of cars and ambulances, all driven by girls, followed by a squadron of women cavalry. Signor Mussolini later addressed a great crowd of shrieking and cheering women from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia.