London, Jan. 7.
CTIVITIES of German aircraft factories have greatly increased since the Munich Agreement, states Group Captain L.G.S.
Payne in an article in the "Daily Telegraph."
"This tends to confirm," he says, "the reports that Herr Hitler has ordered the German air force to be ready for any eventuality by early in the spring. Experts of the United States Army air corps have reported that Germany's. output of military aircraft reached in November the phenomenal figure of 1,000 machines in that month alone, and that, in September, Germany and Italy already had, together, six times as many first-line aircraft as Great Britain and France could muster."
About 400,000 skilled workers, Group Captain Payne says, are now engaged in the German aircraft industry compared with 100,000 in Great Britain. "There is now some reason to suppose," he goes on, "that, in the output of aircraft in peace-time the effort of Germany already approximates, if it does not exceed, the results we attained at the end of the War."
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Colonel Charles Lindbergh, he adds, recently expressed the opinion, that British military aeroplanes of recent type were superior in eficiency and performance to any others in the world. But it is di quieting to note, he concludes, that there are no signs of British aircraft production approximating in scale that of Germany.—Reuter.
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