GREAT AIR CENTRE
WORK AT CYPRUS
UNDERGROUND HANGAR (Received Jamuary 23, 11.30 a.m.) LpNDON, January 22. The "Morning? Post's"Cyprus correspondent reports that plans are rapidly being completedl'for making Cyprus a great British strategic air centrc, including the construction of a £250,000 aerodrome at INiicosia, with underground hangars for fifty aeroplanes. It is also proposed to increase the strength of the CJyprus garrison from one company to ta .battalion and to build new barracks at Nicosia costing] I £30,000 to replace the present obsolete quarters at JPolymedia. The importance of Cyprus from a strategic viewpoimt was enormously in-1 creased by the completion of tho oil pipe-line from the llrak oil fields to the Mediterranean tertminals of Haifa and Tripoli.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 9
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118GREAT AIR CENTRE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 9
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