Miles of Secrets

Until Adolf Hitler admitted fortnight ago that Germany has a military air force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin correspondents were afraid to cable stories about the Nazi air bases now being rushed to completion near the Capital, understood that a single reference to them in a dispatch would cause the correspondent to be tried for "espionage and treason."

Last week, the secret being officially out, most correspondents still kept mum. Daring, an Associated Pressman cabled that he had just ventured to drive rapidly past Berlin's secret air bases "without stopping," adding: "Barbed wire encloses them. Each is screened off by old forest growth or newly planted trees which will soon shut off the view. . . . The first and nearest to Berlin is that at Kladow. . . . The fact that several months of excavation preceded the above-ground work at Kladow seems to indicate the presence of subterranean networks [of aircraft storage space]. . . . The Kladow project covers perhaps four square miles."

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