New York, June 28.
Mr. Edgar Gorrell, President of the Air Transport Association of America, has told United States Air Lines chiefs that they will have to transfer 12 transport planes to Britain within the next four days and 12 more on August 1.
Britain, he stated. needs planes for troop transports in the Near East and elsewhere. Mr, Gorrell conferred secretly with the air line heads on Thursda; Domestic air lines of the United States have already transferred to Britain 22 per cent. of their aircraft. Sixteen major lines at present own 358 aircraft. Britain so far has obtrained 103 air transports from the United States—Reuter, British Volunteers in
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