17 MARCH 1939, Page 6

Three or four days ago I was asking a German

recently arrived in this country about the efficiency of German mili- tary aeroplanes. He answered, as I expected, that many of the planes were unreliable owing to the poor quality of much of the material used in their construction, and added " you will notice that Hitler never travels by aeroplane now." 1 had not noticed it, and it may not be so, but his journey to Prague on Wednesday was, in fact, taken by train, not by air. * * * *