GERMANY'S AIR FLEET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 September 1923, Page 4

GERMANY'S AIR FLEET.

EXTENSIVE PROPAGANDA

A circumstantial account of the extent to which Germany is using factories in the various countries fcr building up her air fleets was given in an article in Le Petit Parisien by M. Albert Jullien last month. There is. M. Jullien shows, extensive aviati»n propaganda in progress throughout Germany, fostered in particular by the Aero Club yon Deutschland and the Deutscher Luftfahrt Verband, and the Reich, being unable under the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles — restrictions Which, it is alleged, are being gradually ignored—to cany out its constructional schemes on its own territory, is encouraging an everextending movement whereby considerable quantities of aviation material intended for Germany's use are being manufactured in other countries. M. Jullien gives the names of aviation firms in Russia, Italy, Denmark, and Holland, which he aserts are really purely German, .and asserts that Germany has big interests in other numerous factories in Esthonia, Finland. Sweden,* Holland, and Roumania. Moreover, the work is, he says, being executed under the direction of technical experts from Germany, Material being made in these foreign countries will, the writer obserres, be available for ready transmission in case of need to Germany; and he suggests that, in view of what to the knowledge of the French Government is being done by Germany to ensure possession of a. powerful aviation force", England need not be surprised at France's efforts to increase her air squadrons.