SOVIET CIVIL AIRLINERS
“More Than U.S., » U.K., France”
(Rec. 11 p.m.l PARIS, June 19 The Soviet airline, Aeroflot, had more commercial aircraft than the United States, Britain and France put together, the Soviet deputy-Minister for Civil Aviation, General Nikita Zakharov, said in Paris yesterday. The Minister was answering a question at a press conference after a demonstration flight at the Paris international air, show by the twin-engined Soviet turbojet, the Tupolev Tu 1048. Without giving figures, he said the Soviet air transport industry was in full expansion and everything was being done to equalise air fares with train fares.
Royalist At Brisbane.— The New Zealand cruiser Royalist, the most modern warship of its type to visit Brisbane, arrived today on a three-day visit to take part in the Queensland centenary cele'brations.—Brisbane, June 19.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28926, 20 June 1959, Page 13
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