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Show FRANCE FEARS ANOTHER GERMAN AERIAL ATTACK I SEES CIVILIAN I PLIES USED I FOR ATTftCK Allies Compel Germany to I Delay Manufacture f Berlin Protests By MDUTOH BROlCfBL JL PARIS, Jon. S. France feara Ger- H many Is preparing for another tnvas- H French publicists set forth that the H whole French nrrny, occupying the left bank of the Rhino, Is In danger be- H cause It doesn't control the air routes. H They picture a tut fleet of Ger- H man civilian airplanes and airship H easily converted to war purposes. H crossing tho French frontier on the H slightest pretext and wiping out Paris H by bombs. H OIVIL1 XMtPl.w I 3. I Qamsnv Is nrenarlni: for civilian BBBal air exploitation as soon as permitted. The Versailles treaty forbids Ger- H many having military or naval air H Recently. lecause Germany delayed H in surrendering warplano material. H tho allies forbado aircraft manufac- H tured for civilian purposes until three H months after all such material Is glv- Germany, resisting, says the allies H can't Impose fresh limitations. She argues such a ban would wreck her H airplane Industry and thus furthor H cripple her economic strength and abll- H io pay war indemnities. H However. Germany is willing to al- H low the allies to Inspect clvlf avia- H tion factories so that any material H which ought to be surrendered can be delivered. Bl ILDING I P I N 1 1 1 Mi. Despite treaty restrictions mid high gasoline prices, Germany has made progress In aviation. The war's end found Germany with forty factories, making 1$00 airplanes H i weekly. Three elected to remain m H ! business, making civilian planes. These H I three aro Sablatnig of Berlin. Junkers H of DesSau and Pokkers of Schwertn. H i The Zeppelin works la also intact. Although not yet allowed to manu-j manu-j facturc, all these plants are keeping H I the machinery oiled and huvo plans H i and specifications for new types of airplanes well advanced. H Six typeR have been passed by the I Interallied commission as civilian, bui permission to manufacture has been withheld. MR ROl ES Rl WIM.. Nevertheless, air passenger service H between Berlin, Copenhagen and Bremen, and between Bremen and H i so there arc mall lines to Sweden and Holland. It is significant for Americans that the leading German air transport com . panies have associated themeelvea j with tho Hamburg-American and j Norddeutschcr shipping companies. This may have un Important bear- ing on America's future commerce, H j as the allies already aro blttorty Jeal-i Jeal-i ous because the Harrlmans and other American interests have entered Into arrangements with these German com- panlos for trans-Atlantic service, thus extending tho sphere of the American LH . marine and giving It tho benefit of I German technical Knowledge, |