REGULAR AIR SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 188, 11 May 1928, Page 9

REGULAR AIR SERVICE

BETWEEN HOLLAND AND INDIA TO BE INAUGURATED SHORTLY AUSTRALIAN COMPANY MAY CONNECT A regular air service between Holland and India and the Dutch East Indies, with connections to London and throughout Europe, will be inaugurated during tlx summer, and it is expectcc that an Australian company will connect with the service.

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London, May 9.

It is announced from Holland that a regular air service between Holland and India and the Dutch East Indies, with connection to London and throughout Europe, will be inaugurated in the summer, using triple-screw Fokkers with Armstrong-Siddeley Lynx engines. The fare from Holland to Batavia will be £3OO. It is expected that the Australian Air Transport Company will connect with the service, running from Australia to Batavia, and bringing London within fourteen days of Australia, seven of India, and ten of Batavia.

TRANSATLANTIC MAIL SERVICE

BRITAIN INTERESTED (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 9. The Secretary for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, was asked in the House of Commons if lie had , under sympathetic observation the movements of Ireland and Canada to follow up the transatlantic air flight of Major Fitzmaurice and his comrades by establishing air ports in Ireland on the one hand and at the entrance of the St- Lawrence on the other, for the collection and distribution ...of transatlantic seaborne mails. •'

Sir Samuel Hoare said that the establishment of air ports in the Irish Free State was a matter for the Government concerned. He could promise that any development which was the result of the employment of aircraft for the development of the transatlantic mail service would receive the sympathetic consideration and cooperation of! the Postmaster-General and himself.

ALL-METAL . MACHINES IN BRITISH SERVICE (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 9. Sir Samuel Hoare stated in the House of Commons that six types of all-metal machines would be used in the British air service by 'the end of this year. The general policy of the Air Ministry, was to push on with the development of all-metal machines. We were substantially in advance of any other country in this matter. He hoped in the course of 'the current year that the aid ships RlOO and RlOl would be flying. WILKINS AND EIELSON EMBARKING MACHINE FOR f OSLO (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Spitsbergen, May 9. Captain Wilkins and Lieut Eielson, who have been marooned at Green Harbour for the past three weeks, have dug out their aeroplane from the snow and ice, and are taking it by dog team over the icefield to the steamer Hobby, on which they will embark on May 10 for Oslo. Captain Wilkins has accepted the Norwegian Government’s invitation to stay for the national fete* on. May 17.

CREW REFUSE TO TAKE ’PLANE ABOARD

(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. May 10, 9 p.m.) London, May 9. The crew of the Norwegian Government steamer Hobby refuse .to take aboard Wilkins’s aeroplane, as they affirm that its size will endanger the safety of the ship. THE ITALIA’S FLIGHT CREW’S ASSISTANTS WILL NOT GO ON (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. May 10, 9 p.m.) London May 9. The Central News correspondent at King’s Bay states that differences of opinion have broken out among the Italians and Marines assisting the crew of the Italia, and they have refused further to participate in the flight. The marines belong to the supply ship Citta di Milano, and they declare that they never agreed to go to the Pole, Green Harbour, or Spitsbergen. D’OISY’S FLIGHT TO TOKIO DRIVEN DOWN BY BAD WEATHER (Australian Press Assn—United Service.) Bucharest, May 9. Bad weather compelled Lieut. D’Oisy. who, with Lieut. Palletier, is flying' to Tokio in long stages, to land at Arad, 500 kilometres west of Bucharest.