AIR CONVENTION FAVOURED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20104, 10 May 1935, Page 9

AIR CONVENTION FAVOURED

FRENCH APPEAL TO EUROPE AMERICA’S ACTIVITIES IN PACIFIC United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigbt (Received May 9, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 9. The Paris correspondent of “The News Chronicle” says: "France would be glad to join the others, including Germany, in an Air Convention, for the limitation or even a reduction of air forces, but only on the condition that it provides strict and effective control and all round security,” said the spokesman for the Foreign Office in replying to the German Air Ministry on Tuesday. The spokesman added: “Everything depends on Germany, because negotiations are impossible, if she still demands an air force equal to France and Russia combined.” General Denain (French Air Minister) is going to Rome to-day to negotiate a military air pact with Italy. A high official of the French Air Ministry said that it/will be merely a defensive pact, but France is hoping that it will lead to a larger pact, in which Britain and also Belgium and Germany will join.

AMERICA’S POWERFUL AIR ARM TRIAL FLIGHTS IN PACIFIC United Press Association—By Electrlo Tel egraoh—Copyright (Received May 9, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 8. The Honolulu correspondent of the United Press Association states that aircraft has become a major factor in America’s peace time war games in the Pacific to-day, with the disclosure that 42 fighting ’planes will attempt the greatest mass flight in history, as part of the naval manoeuvres. The flight will involve 200 officers and enlisted men. The armada is scheduled to take off at 6 a.m. tomorrow, for a 1200 miles hop to Midway Island, where It will join a section of the fleet engaged in manoeuvres in neighbouring waters. While it is learned that* Admiral Reeves ordered the flight, all plans will be kept secret. The same secrecy cloaked the movements of all the units of the fleet, which steamed into the Pacific from the United’ States harbours and Pearl Harbour naval base. FAST FLYING AIRCRAFT ANOTHER AMERICAN RECORD United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 9, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 8. Using the same monoplane engine which carried her safely across two oceans and two record breaking transcontinental flights, Amelia Earhart completed the first non-stop Mexico City to New York flight, landing at Neward Airport at 10.30 to-night. She flew 2070 miles in 14 hours 29 minutes.