FRENCH AIR FORCE
AN INCREASE NECESSARY. (Received Friday, 11.50 a.m.) PARIS, Thursday. The French Government has decided to spend £22,850,000 on air defences, supplementary to the amount provided in the Budget in November. General Dcnain (Minister for Air), in explaining the Government’s Bill, said that it was aimed to bring up the total strength to the desired level as early as possible in 1936, and would enable the number. of ’planes to- be raised from 1100 to 1500. Special attention would be paid to heavy bombing ’planes. Germany’s air development made it clear that France could not wait longer before increasing her air force.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 March 1935, Page 5
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