GERMAN AIR FORCE.
FRENCH MINISTER’S COMMENT
PARIS, Nov. 21. The Air Minister (M. Denain), addressing the Chamber’s air committee, protested against “panic rumours” that Germany possesses thousands of military aeroplanes. In reality, he said, Germany would possess between 1000 and 1100 military machines at the beginning of 1935. The French air force was larger than the German one, but slower and less modern, but with the credits in hand France could quickly fulfil a programme at least equalling Germany in this respect.
A message received on November 8 stated that the Daily Mail said that Germany was unmistakably challenging for world air supremacy. She had an estimated annual productive capacity qf 50,000 aeroplanes as compared with the United States, 3000; France and Italy, 2000 each; Britain, 1000; and Czechoslovakia, Holland Po'and and Sweden combined,_ 1500. Germany was thus manufacturing five times' the output of the remainder of the world. On November 18 the Daily Dispatch said that a special investigator sent to Germany on behalf of British secret interests reported that Germany was capable of putting over 2500 aeroplanes in the air within an hour if war broke out.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 306, 23 November 1934, Page 7
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