EMPIRE AIRWAYS.
Indian And African Services
Developing.
PERSIA STILL A DRAWBACK.
LONDON, November 18.
In the House of Commons the Minister of Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, stated with respect to the proposed air routes to Australia and Capetown, that the service between Cairo and Basra was operating once a week each way with 100 per cent efficiency. For the next stage, to Karachi, the Persian Government had not yet agreed to a route along the shores of the Persian Gulf.
The Government of India was organising tha route from Karachi to Calcutta The Royal Air Force had already surveyed the link from Calcutta to Rangoon and Singapore.
With reference to the South African route, the Minister said the experimental route by Khartoum and Kistiinu had been interrupted owiny to a mishap to a machine.— (A. and N.Z. and Svdney "Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 274, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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