GERMANY DISTURBED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 601, 4 August 1933, Page 5

GERMANY DISTURBED

(Press Assn.—

DECLARES USE NO INFRACTION OF THE PARIS AIR AGREEMENT an english canard

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

London, August 2. Germany's intentions regarkiing military or police aircraft are continuing to engage the serious attent.ion of the British Government. The matter is unlikely to be left where it stands. The German newspapers' only refepence to Captain Goering's reqqest and Britain's intimation has been an inspired statement headed "an English canard" declaring that English newspapers alleged a German infraction of the Paris Air Agreement, necessitating a demarche by the British charge d'affaires in Berlin, The German newspqpers thereupon, declared that "no British protest has been made in Berliji, nor could apy haye been made because an infraction | of the Paris Agreement was not com- ! mitted or contemplated. I The Times emjphasises that the British intimation was not a protest but it clearly conveyed the BritishI view that the proposal of police planes implied an infraction of the I agreement, and adds: "Various other indications apart from Captain Goering's request, are arousing misgivings which are likely to be followed with close attention. A London message last month stated an answer has been conveyed by the British Government to Captain Goering, German Minister of Air and Premier of Prussia, who recently approached the British attache in Berlin and alleged that Austria had purchased a few British aeroplanes of a military type for police purposes. He suggested the possibility of Germany purchasing similar machines for the same purpose The Br,itish Government informed Captain Goering that no aeroplanes of the type indicated had been supplied to the Austrian Government. The British Government had no intention of conniving at a breach of the Paris Air Agreement of 1926, under which 50 members of the German police force were allowed to reeeive flying instruction. But the force was not to perform duties in the air or possess aeroplanes.