NEW AIR SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 135, 10 June 1938, Page 7

NEW AIR SERVICE.

DUTCH ENTERPRISE.

Australia to England Inside Seven Days.

START WITHIN A MONTH

United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The second air service between Australia and England, which will bring Sydney within seven days of London, will commence within a month when Royal Netherlands Airways will open a service between Sydney and Batavia under the management of the K.L.M. line. The hop from Sydney to Darwin will be made in one day. Batavia will be reached the following afternoon and the service will connect with the present Batavia-London service, which occupies .1} davs.

An experimental flight will be made next week and the regular service will be inaugurated from Sydney on Julv 5. Dutch 'planes thereafter wiil leave Sydney on Thursdays and Sundays of each week for Batavia.

SIX BODIES FOUND.

Military Funeral for S. African Crash Victims. HARDSHIPS OF RESCUERS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, June 9. The rescue party found the six bodies of the Royal Air Force tioxing team near their crashed aeroplane. Natives are carrying the bodies to a road, whence they will be conveyed by lorry 30 miles to a temporary farm aerodrome. They will be flown from there to Pretoria by members of the Royal Air Force. The victims will be accorded a military funeral at Pretoria to-morrow. The searchers suffered 48 hours of terrible hardships, having lost their way overnight. They were redirected from the air at dawn, when badly needed food was dropped to them.