VULNERABLE PARIS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 1

VULNERABLE PARIS.

France in Peril From Air Attack. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 17. That France must awaken to the air peril is the subject of an article in the magazine “ Aimes Modernes," with a preface by Marshal Petain. The article says that Paris is the most vulnerable capital in Europe. It has 154 inhabitants to the acre compared with London’s 60. The article declares that Germany possesses 800 aeroplanes capable of immediate action, including 600 which can be used as bombers. They are sufficient to attack at a single blow Metz, Verdun, Nancy, Strasbourg, Mezieres, Amiens, Paris and Dijon, and even Bordeaux, Brest and towns similarly distant from Germany. In addition Do.-X and other passenger machines can be used for the secret landing of storm troops to destroy railway junctions, bridges, factories and similar vital points. The newest air bombs, weighing two tons, consist of 70 per cent of high explosive. enabling the German air fleet to carry to any French town a destructive power equivalent to a battleship’s twelve-inch guns firing contin- | uously for eight hours.