ALLIED AIR CHIEF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 10

ALLIED AIR CHIEF

APPOINTMENT LIKELY FRENCH SUPERIORITY GERMAN FIGHTERS (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Fress Assu.) (Reed. Oct. 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 28. Once air warfare is fully launched, it is expected that a British officer, occupying a similar position to Marshal Gamclin over the Allied iorces, will command 1 lac air arms, says a report from Paris. Australian and New Zealand pilots, who find waiting tiresome, demonstrated their skill and daring by bombing buildings at one end of the aerodrome which they are not allowed to do in peace-time.

Every squadron is seasoned with a ration of two to six Dominion pilots, who, except the Canadians, are severely feeling the cold snap. Tne news that a fortnight hence they will be granted two or three days and nights’ leave, including Paris, cheered them up.

The Paris correspondent of the Exchange Agency says that the French Air Force reports that -to October 20 the French lost eight fighters and the Germans 24.

The French fighters are markedly superior to the German Messerschmitls.

French warplane production is rising continually. The factories are employing 300,000 workers. The air force recruits number 200 daily. Two hundred and fifty day and 70 night reconnaissance flights were carried out at an altitude of 25,000 ft.