ENGLAND TO INDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 7

ENGLAND TO INDIA.

Intended To Be Twice Weekly When Developed. START NEXT YEAR. (Australian Press Assa.—Onited Service.j (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 12.* Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, states that the Anglo-Indian air service will definitely start on April 1, 1929. He hoped that eventually the service would be twice weekly. The maximum annual subsidies for the first two years were £335,000, thereafter decreasing annually to £7000 in the tenth and last year. After that the service should be selfsupporting. The Air Minister, speaking at the opening of the new air station at Croydon, in May, said he had initialled a draft agreement between the Government and Imperial Airways, Ltd., for a regular weekly service between London and India. Most probably the route for the new service, he said, would be via Marseilles, Cairo, and Bagdad. The present trip of triplescrew air liners from Lbndon to Paris would be extended to the Mediterranean port, where all-metal flying boats to seat 15 passengers would be embarked to cross to Cairo. The service would then link up with the present service to Bagdad, and the Persian Gulf, the latter being extended to Delhi. ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT England To Tokyo Stage Completed. AIR ROUTE VIA SIBERIA. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) TOKYO, July 12. I When the airman Mears, in the aeroplane City of New York, was approaching Tokyo he experienced difficulty owing to the fog and darkness, and landed.

Merfrs considers the flight to be a demonstration of the feasibility of a six days' regular service between London and Tokyo via Siberia. Convenient landing places arid supplies are available throughout the route.