THE GRAF ZEPPELIN
PROPOSED EGYPTIAN FLIGHT (British Official Wireless • Rugby, February 27. In the House of Commons, the Un-der-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. G. Locker-Lampson, stated that the German Foreign Ministry had asked unofficially the British Embassy regarding the attitude of the British Government towards the proposed flight of the airship Graf Zeppelin over Egypt. After consultation with the Secretary for Air and the British High Commissioner in Cairo. Sir Austen Chamberlain instructed the British Ambassador in Berlin on February 16 to reply to these unofficial representations that the British Government was opposed to the proposed flight. Asked why the flight was opposed, Mr. Locker-Lampson added: “It is quite understood between the Egyptian Government and ourselves that aviation is not to take place over Egypt except by agreement between the two parties.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 11
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