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Show EUROPt NATIONS I SWT RACE FOR SUPREMACY I AIR; FRENCH IN LEAD, FEAR GERMANS Germany's Amazing Strides Toward Perfecting Gliders Glid-ers Cause Concern Especially Es-pecially in France B MUTTON BRONX! R LONDON. Sept. "J. Supremacy iU ! the air is the goal European nations are racing for. France stands easily; ilr.xt. with Kngland a poor second,, and ;.Tinany a great question mark. British engineers arc trying to off-! . 1 Fr acta numerical superiority .while th.- best German bralus are ' : work not only Inventing new devices but evading the restriction put upon ; their air future by the allies. These developments are causing the! I most concern especially lb the; j French: ! Germany's recenl amazing strides in p ri.. ting gliders, which thay claim may change the entire future ut lir history; whili .1 German glider re,.- mained up more than two hours, the 'best the Trench could do v.um f 1 n minutes. The reported manufacture in t neighboring country Under Gorman supervision of the powerful all-metal vlnni mono'nlane known as the Zeo- peiin Staaken. I FRANCE LEADS WORLD. I Stirred by her tears ol possible. German aggression in the future and determined to preserve her military j domination on the continent France 1 has the largest und best trained military mili-tary air service In the world. Lau- 1 rent Eynac. French air minister, claims his country stands first both In military and commercial aviation French aircraft factories, encout-aged encout-aged by the government, are turning out ii machines a month. France has 1 L" 6 squadrons of airplanes .n her offensive and defensive forces and by the end of next year proposes to have 820 squadrons, or nearly L'.uuO ready for active duty. In addition there are 59S planes in civilian v.orl: qapable Of being used for military purposes. Commercial nir travel is possible between fans and London. Brussels, Btrassbourg, Amsterdam, Prague, Warsaw, vjena, Budapest, Lausanne I and Marseilles, between, southern Prance and Morocco, between Tou-louse Tou-louse and Barcelona, and a line is in preparation between runs and I oust intlnople. Kngland is bestirring herself as the result of a scare In parliament, where it was authoritatively state. 1 that the tot.il active r.ritlsh military force was 82 l-- squadrons, of which 20 wefe scattered through Egypt. Palestine, Mesopotamia and India. Parliament was startled by the admission ad-mission that only U7 British planes certified as airworthy are in civil aviation and only S3 of (diem i value for military purposes Commercial lines are mainly between London and Paris and Brussels. Premier Lloyd George has announced an-nounced that a force of 500 machines j would be provided for home defense ', ai an annual cost bt $10,000,000. Ihe ; British are experimenting with sev-eral sev-eral new de,v)ces. building a super living boat, preparing n bombing ni 1- chine of enormous horsepower, con-j con-j struc ting six aii-metai machines, and planning a flying repair ship. I With Herman military airplan-s l destroyed and commercial aircraft 1 construction restricted, Germany I complains that her air industry Iris been throttled. Nevertheless she ha-i I worked wonders with 25 machines, 100 of which were old '-..-military ma-I ma-I chln. s With them they have maintained main-tained air scrv ic all over Germany and also to Holland and the city of Riga In Russia 00 |