LONDON-HONG KONG
FLIGHT OF EIGHT DAYS
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 20, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 18.
London will be brought within eight and a half days of Hong Kong after tomorrow, when the new Imperial Airways route will be opened between Hong Kong and Bangkok. The new air line will be a branch of the main England' to Australia air route, connecting with the latter at Bangkok, and is 400 miles shorter than the former Imperial Airways line to Hong Kong via Penang. The service will be maintained by liners of the Diana class.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 11
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