AIR DEFENCES
FRANCE'S POSITION
SECOND ONLY TO RUSSIA
(Received February 3, 12.30 p.m.)
PARIS, February 2.
"Only one Power in the world, Soviet Russia, has air force material superior to ours," said the Air Minister (M. Cot), in the Chamber of Deputies.
He added that German machines cannot be compared with French bombing aeroplanes. French front-line aeroplanes had been increased in six months by 37 per cent, and aviation munitions by 50 per cent. Bombing capacity would be doubled by the spring, quadrupled by the end of 1938, and multiplied fivefold by the end of 1939. France would never send squadrons abroad to bomb women and children, but they must be ready to reply to any attack.-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 11
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