AEROPLANES FOR AUSTRIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21554, 27 July 1933, Page 9

AEROPLANES FOR AUSTRIA

GERMAN STORY DENIED BRITAIN'S FORCEFUL REPLY TERMS OF PARIS AGREEMENT I?y TclecrapH—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 2G, 0.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, July 25 An answer lias boon conveyed by the British Government to Captain Goering, Gorman Minister of Air and Premier of Prussia, who recently approached tho British attache in Berlin and allowed that Austria had purchased a few British aeroplanes of a military typo for polico purposes. Ho suggested tlio possibility of Germany purchasing'similar machines for tlio samo purpose--Iho British Government informed Captain Goering that no aeroplanes of tho typo indicated had been supplied to tho Austrian Government. Tlio British Government had no intention of conniving at a breach of tho Paris Air Agreement of 192G, under which 50 members of tho German police force were allowed to receive flying instruction. But tho foreo was not to perform duties in tho air or possess aeroplanes.

ORDERS REFUSED GERMANY AND SOVIET BRITISH AIRCRAFT FIRMS Times Cable LONDON, July 25 It is understood that British aircraft firms have refused German orders for fighting aeroplanes, also a Russian order, as tho Air Ministry has forbidden the export of tho latest models to Russia.