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CONGEALED AERODROME JOURNALIST’S AULEGATIONS (Received May 21, 2 p.m.) LONDON, May .20. Tlie Daily Express publishes an air mail article dispatched uy Mr. Pembroke Stephens just‘ prior to iiis arrest, in which lie describes the largest aeiodronie in Germany, and probably in Europe, situated in a'dell a few miles from the civil aerodrome at 'Hanover. v "‘‘There is," therefore, no commercial justification for the new airport, which is designed purely for military pur'poses,” he mates. “Jt is surrojmded by woods, and Ls not visible from‘the road or rail. Not even Storni Troopers arc admitted. Three huge hangars have "been completed, aiid workmen are busy .constructing barracks for jiilots and mechanics. Excavations are being made for .two subtert’anean bomb proof shelters for -Loth .piaffes and '.tfyeir [personnel. There are' huge petrol containers, paint.ej find ca,mpuflaged grey-green, mouritefl "oil uiechanised yagons. “Germany has no visible military" air .fleet, but it rpally .exists, scattered •throughout Germany, the engines in one factory, wings .in another, and .bodies .elsewhere, awaiting either The powers’ authority or The breakdown of the -Dis.armament .Conference for immediate assembly. .Quantities of American and British engines are being imported.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 8
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191SECRET GERMAN FORCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 8
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