FRENCH AIR FORCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 5

FRENCH AIR FORCE

50 PER CENT. INCREASE Received Feb. 0, I-. 55 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 6. A conference representing France and the colonies, decided to increase the air force 50 per cent., most of the cost being borne by the colonies. All ’planes the least out of date will be scrapped. EMPIRE PRESS CONFERENCE OPENED. UNITY OF COMMONWEALT!J. IMPORTANCE OF NEWS. CAPETOWN, Feb. 5. Thu Governor-General of South O rica, the Earl of Clarendon, in open□g the Empire Press Conference, welomcd the deelgates to what he decribed as the land of gold, both above .nd below the ground. They had asembled in South Africa at a most haracteristic moment of her history. Recalling Lord Rosebery’s remarks at he opening of the first conference in 909, when he described the conference ,s of greater importune than the gatherings of Prime Ministers and Minsters, he said that Lord Rosebery’s emarks about “transient statesmen nd the permanent Press” were as true »-da.y as in 1909, South Airica’s problems were little nown outside, but a solution would' ave an important reaction far beyond .frie.au shores. lie expresesd a desire to see still reatc /improvement in the volume and slection of Empire news and inforinavc articles. He was quite sure that ae delegates would return to their wn countries strengthened in the de- ! re to preserve the unity of the great ommonwealth of Nations. The delegates last night were enterlined by the famous Capetown Muni- • pal Orchestra, the director of which, : Ir. Pickerill, had composed a special 1 verturo in their honour.