EMPIRE AIR MAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 95, 24 April 1939, Page 7

EMPIRE AIR MAILS.

Chamber Of Commerce Complains Of Delay. IMMEDIATE STEPS URGED. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. The civil aviation section of the London Chamber of Commerce has written to Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minister, complaining of the delay of Empire air mails and urging that steps be taken immediately to provide fast services solely for mails. TWENTY KILLED. Three French Air Force Crashes. DAY OF TRAGEDIES. PARIS, April 23. The crew of s : k men were killed when a military aeroplane crashed in French Morocco. Nine men" were killed in a collision between two bombers when they were landing at Tours. They comprised a lieutenant, a lieutenant-colonel and seven non-co: imissioned officers. Five men were killed when a bomber crashed in the course of a practice flight at Beauvais. ARRIVAL AT ATHENS. GERMANS' FLIGHT TO TOKYO. BERLIN, April 23. Baron von Gablenz, a director of the Lufthansa Company, started yesterday on a flight to Tokyo in a Junker aeroplane called the Hans Loe, with a crew of three. They arrived at Athens to-day. LONDONER'S FEAT.

ACROSS CHANNEL IN GLIDER. LOXDO3T, April 23. A member of the London Gliding Club, .Mr. G. H. Stephenson, is the first man to cross the Channel in , a soaring flight in a glider. He made the trip from Diinstable to Boulogne.