WORLD-WIDE PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 9

WORLD-WIDE PLAN.

German Aerial Freight Service. OBJECT OF THE FLIGHT. BERLIN, March 30. An interesting revelation is made by the newspaper "Kolnische Zeitung" about Herr Koehl's impending transAtlantic adventure. It says the flight is part of the preparation of propaganda for a great world-wide aerial freight service which is being jointly arranged by the North German Lloyd Shipping Company and the Junkers Aircraft Company.

The paper says representatives of the Limerick Steamship Company, agents of the North German Lloyd in Ireland, obtained permission for the flight to be made from Ireland. Representatives have also been dispatched to South Africa to arrange for a service from Capetown to Johannesburg. Another representative has to Madcid to arrange for a service between Spain and South America.

A Far Eastern service is being organised from Japan, and Frau Hertha Junkers is acting for the undertaking in the United States. Secrecy is being maintained as to all the schemes because the companies do not wish their names to be associated with a failure. In the event.. of Koehl's success, however, the execution of a comprehensive programme will immediately be taken in hand.

The paper says similar plans are contemplated by the Hamburg-America Line and the Rumpler Company, owners of another large aeroplane factory.