GERMAN AIR ROUGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22070, 28 September 1933, Page 4

GERMAN AIR ROUGE

;BRITISH [ATTITUDE. (FbOM OtJB Own 'CORRESPONDENTiJ LONDON, August 6., The question of Germany’s intentions in the matter of military or police aircraft continues to. engage the serious consideration of the Biitish Government (says The Times). The matter is unlikely to be left where it stood after the intimation of the Biitish Government to. the German Government—evoked by thfeAw Minister’s expression to .the. British Air Attache in Berlin of a desire- to’.purchasq 25 to 50 British aircraft for . police pur? poses—-that' the British Government couM not countenance the a ale of Bi*itisn> air? craft to the German Government, for put* poses forbidden by the Paris Air Agree? ment of 1926. Under this agreement 50 members of the German police force were, allowed to receive flying instruction;., nut the force was not to perform duties in the air or to possess aeroplanes. -j. INFRACTION OP AGREEMENTThe only reference to Captain.Goering’i semi-official request and, the BntisnGovernment’s subsequent official intimation tp the German Government, which has appeared in the German press, has been an inspired statement, under the headline “ English Press Canard,” that British ’ newspapers report an alleged German infraction pf the Pans Air Agreement, which, is said to, have given; rise to a demarche of the British Charge d’Affairea in Berlin. No British pro? test has been made in Berlin, nor could any be made, for an infraction of the provisions of the Paris Air Agreement;, has not been committed and is not contemplated ... The British official intimation was not a, protest, but it clearly conveyed the view of the British Government that the pro? (■ posal which had been put forwar implied* an infractioirof the Pans Air Agreement. Various other indications, apart from. Captain Goering’s request, are giving nst, to some misgivings about Germany s intentions in the air, and the- matter H likely to be followed with close attention -