FLOWN TO FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 13

FLOWN TO FRANCE

AMERICAN PLANES

BRITISH PURCHASES

ORDER FOR 250

NEUTRALITY BREACH BEING

WINKED AT

ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.?

NEW YORK, January 26,

The "Herald-Tribune" gives prominence to a report from its Washington correspondent that Lockheed bombers, purchased by Britain and manned by French crews, are being flown over American soil en route to Botwood (Newfoundland),' whence they are flown* across the Atlantic to the Western Front. ,

"These flights have been proceeding for'sortie time and will continue till an order for 250 planes is delivered. The method involves violation of American neutrality, but this is being winked at.

In Los Angeles the Lockheed Corporation has received an additional British order for 200 bombers at a cost of over 30,000,000 dollars. The total foreign and domestic orders received by American aircraft manufacturers exceed 700,000,000 dollars. It is reported that the British and French are discussing lodging orders for 6000 to 8000 bombers and numerous fighters.