Berlin, June 27.
Closer ce-operation between the German and Italian air forces was announced this evening by General Valle, Italian State Secretary for Aviation, and General Milch, State Secretary of the Reich Air Ministry, at a reception in honour of General Valle, who is visiting Germany as the guest of Field Marshal Hermann Goering.
General Milch declared that only four weeks previously a far-reaching programme of collaboration had been agreed upon between the air forces of the two countries, and although only a brief period had elapsed the programme had already been realized. The conference which he had had with General Valle. on, the problems of the future had disclosed complete harmony of views as to the organization and tasks of the two air forces. This close ce-operation would never be discontinued, but on the contrary rendered more close if that should prove at all possible' as a consequence of the agreements now reached in Berlin, In reply, General Valle said he had found the German air force to be inferior to none throughout the world. Ca-operation between the German and Italian air forces would be conducted in accordance with. the instructions he had received from Il Duce.
The comradeship and mutual esteem of the airmen of the two countries, he concluded, was based on common experience gained in Spain, where both forces proved their excellence and made the greatest sacrifices side by side in defence of the same ideal—Trans-Ocean, It is reported that a robin has built its nest in a human skull in a Rochester (Kent) museum. For weeks mother robin has been preparing for her offspring and has converted the skull into a moss-lined nursery.
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