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Show LIBERTY MOTOe IS . i IEDIHEBfilM ! Report Says Results Obtained Ob-tained "Place Engine in First Line." WASHINGTON", .Junii H. Tests of the Liberty motor made in England "place tiij engine at once in the rtrt line of hih -powered air engines," the lit Jtlsh air mi iii.sLt-r toJay caoled Lord Reading, Uritlnh amhaH.sador to 1 ho United States. "The lirlLi.-.h Lechni::il authorities," taid tho ine.iNa ge, "have n-ported to the air m!ni:der thai, ihe Uherty engines have now b:-ti u l ii-ci ed to unfileient air f.vln)vi I in l a i la nd. to wa rrauL eonii-dt:ne eonii-dt:ne in thh; engine ' Kxceikni: results have to lar been obtained, which place the i:rr-;in; rl once in the tirst line of high-poiverpJ ;ur ens iitus. "Naturally, swcl.-o experiment in field 1:: still to he ohf.alr.'-d, hut Die Liberty ;ngin will bo a most valuable contrJ-liullon contrJ-liullon Lo the allied aviation program, and the United States should develop production with every confidence." liy fritornaUlonal News Service. U'ASHLS'UTON. Juno 8. Tho Liberty motor Ih h. hiu:c;.s.s, reports Senator Hoko . .Smith, a member of the senate military flairs co mini t ten's aviation subcOinmit-! subcOinmit-! t e, after a visit ' to I ayion, where tho , motor Ih br,lng tiied exienslv.-ly. Senator j fhnith Haw one of Ihe Liberty motors 11 y a plane with marked results. He h;o .said that. Daytun was the only j plai:e wherr-i eotnbat planes were being i produced. J in saw seventeen lellaviluaid Planes that, had been turned ouL In a striel.j day. The .senator did not ac-ompa ny Sena- l tors Thomas. Ki elinghiiyseti. Rend and ! New to .1 Detroit ami ot her middle-wor-t eities on their Invest igwt ing tour. He t-ihl he knew nothing of the printed rumors ru-mors here that there, had been discovery discov-ery of spies in t he Buffalo plant of a well -known com pa ny. A member or the senato military committee com-mittee said lie had heard a hint thai, (lie committee, had discovered irregulari-(i"s, irregulari-(i"s, hut knew nnlhtng mote of it. Some! months iigo Senator CJverman, as chair-, chair-, man of the senate judiciary eommitiee, ! repeated in subs fan nee the same allega- , tions made in the rumors set afloat to-j to-j '"a v that German spies were tampering with airplane manufacture. |