AIR PACTS

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1935, Page 5

AIR PACTS

FRANCE’S LEAD

Terms for Germany

(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 9- 9-40 p.m.) LONDON, May 9.

The “News-Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says: “France would be glad to join others, including Ger many, in an air convention for the limitation, and even the reduction, of air forces, but only on the condition that, it provides for strict and effective control and for all-round security,” said a French Foreign Office spokesman, when replying to the German Air Ministry statement of May 7th. The spokesman added: “Everything depends on Germany, because negotiations will be impossible if she still demands an air force equal to the forces of France and Russia combined. ’ ’ M. Denain is going to Rome to-day to negotiate a military air pact with Italy.

A high official at the French Air Ministry said that it will be merely a defensive pact, but France is hoping that it may lead to a larger pact, in which Britain, and also Belgium and Germany, may join. EMPIRE SERVICES. SMALLER PLANES PROPOSED. LONDON, May 9. Imperial Airways Company are making preliminary inquiries in the aircraft industry for new machines for its Empire service.' It contemplates, according to the “Daily Express”, a change from large four engined liners carrying forty passengers to mediumsized" twin engined machines carrying only twelve, but a heavy mail load, with an economical cruising speed of about 130 miles an hour, and a top speed of two hundred miles. MRS EARHART’S LATEST EXPLOIT. (Received May 9, 10 pm.) NEW YORI\. May 8. Using the same monoplane engine which has carried her safely across two oceans and two rccord.-brcnking trans-continental flight. Mrs Amelia Putnam Earhart has completed the first non-stop Mexico City to New York flight, landing nt Newark airport at 10.30 to-night. She flow 20"0 miles in fourteen hours twenty-nine minutes.