Flow of U.S. Warplanes to Britain

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 7

Flow of U.S. Warplanes to Britain

Big Increase in Production

VICHY’S AXIS PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 12.40 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 22. Mr. William S. Knudscn (chairman of the U.S. Committee for the Co-ordina-tion of Defence) said the United States will be producing 500 heavy bombers monthly late in 1942 which is tho rate President Roosevelt considers will give the democracies aerial supremacy. Colonel Knox (Navy Secretary) announced that the U.S. Navy had received 600 first-line warplanes in the last ten months and an equal number was exported to Britain in accordance |with the custom of sharing the Navy’s intake of warplanes with Britain. Colonel Knox, discussing the increase in production, said in the first four months of last year the Navy received 79 warplanes and in the first four months of 1941 had received 996. These figures did not include army warplanes but the army also shares with Britain. The New York Times* Panama correspondent says Martinique is becoming a propaganda centre for Latin America for the distribution of Vichy information that aids the Axis Powers. Funds are not likely to be available for this work from the Vichy Government and the question therefore arises whether they arc furnished by Germany or are part of the frozen French funds in the United States released for relief purposes in Martinique. The Hudson Motor Company employees unanimously ratified the agreement to eud the strike by the United Automobile Workers. The agreement provides for a wage increase of eight cents an hour.