AMERICAN AIRCRAFT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 237, 19 September 1934, Page 9

AMERICAN AIRCRAFT

Sales for Army Purposes MUNITIONS INQUIRY By lelegraph- Press Assn. —Cop>rijit \\ ASHiNGION, Sept. 18. The activities ot American aeroplane manufacturers. particularly those specialising in military unit, were teatuied at the Senate munitions inquiry today. Officials ol the Pratt and Whitney Motoi Co , a subsidiary oi United Aircraft, testified that a 100(1 dollar investment had increased to some 11,51,0 000 in the eight yea is ending ik-i’l. in.only by cqui; pil’g army ph"., (or American and foreign governments. It is alleged that the company benelitted greatly from naval patents and got many contracts through '‘pud”, but this was denied. Turning to foreign fields, it was revealed that exports to Germany find increased three-told since the rise of Herr Hitler. All shipments were made us “commercial" orders.

In connection with large shipments to China, it was revealed that several Government departments encouraged this business and sent air missions to China and allowed American instructors to teach Chinese to fly. It was declared that China plans a modern air fleet of 500 craft, about 86 per cent of which will be military planes of the latest design.

DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER

BUENOS AIRES, September 18.

The Foreign Office has published instructions to-night to the Ambassador to Washington to make an energetic protest to the State Department for “defamation of character” of Argentinians mentioned in the munitions inquiry. Argentina demands the payment of reparations for moral and mental damage.