SECOND TO RUSSIA
FRENCH AIR FORCE BIG INCREASES PLANNED * FOR DEFENCE ONLY (Elec. Tol. Copyright—United Press Assn.) {Reed. Feb. 3,2 p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 2. “Only one Power in the world, Soviet Russia,' has an air force and material superior lo ours,” said M. Pierre Cot, the Minister for Air, in the Chamber of Deputies.
He added that- German machines could not be compared with French bombing planes. French front-line planes had been increased in six months by 37 per cent and aviation munitions by 60 per cent. The bombing capacity would have been doubled by tiie spring, quadrupled by the end of 1938, and multiplied fivefold by the end of 1939. “France will never send squadrons abroad to bomb women and children,” he said, “but she must bo ready (n reply to any attack.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 15
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