"Our oversea commerce will bo vastly improved by aviation. Within a reasonable period of the end of the -war we shall find all the principal' mnil liners . fitted with seaplanes." This is the view of Mr.,D. H. Bernard, expressed in the current "Merchant Service Review," of which he is a co-editor. "A liner leaving New York with urgent and important letters will be-amcV'-ho writes, "to dischargo them by eeaplanei 300 or 400 miles west of the Irish coast; within a few hours they can be-delivered 'in London, thus effecting a saving in time of 2-t' hours. The same procedure can bo carried out by a vessel bound to New York. It is quite'within the bounds of possibility that letters posted in London can bb delivered in New York within four daya." At the outset, Mr. Bernard thinks this service will, no doubt, bo subsidised by the Governments/of .Ijoth' cciuntries. Ho'points out that it-could be-developed on routes-to-all. parts of the world. . Along the coast, for weal or woe, The staunch steel ships steam to and froj And bear for us from port to port, Commodities of every sort. And every vessel that you sec, Where'er, its jjorts of calls may be, Contains within its hold, 'tie,sure, Cases of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. ■ ■••■•■ ..-Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 9
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212Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 9
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