AIR FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 7

AIR FORCE

FRANCE “DANGEROUSLY INFERIOR” MEASURES TO EXPEDITE PRODUCTION. COMPARISON WITH GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, October 15. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that a new decree orders all employees in aircraft factories to work a 45-hour week instead of 40. _ , The Air Commission of the Senate has made representations to the Air Minister, M. Lechambre, urging that the utmost efforts be made to extend the air force especially in the matter of increased production of war planes. Senator Delagrange, president of the French Aero Club and the Air Commission’s rapporteur, in an article in “Le Journal,” says that the French Air Force is dangerously inferior to the German, whose factories can produce 1000 planes a month in peacetime. France ought to be able to produce 500 but turns out only onetenth of this. ADDITIONAL PLANES. FOUR THOUSAND NEEDED. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, October 16. It is estimated that France needs over four thousand new planes, including reserves. These will cost about fifty millions sterling. New air bases and additional personnel will cost a further thirty millions. M. Guy La Chambre (Air Minister) has ordered a hundred American Curtis Wright machines.