THOUSANDS ARRIVE
DELIVERIES IN BRITAIN
(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 19. , Eighty-five thousand airgraph letters' from the Middle East have been received at the G.P.0., London, and will be delivered throughout the country during the next few days. These 85,000 tiny photo-letters weighed 20 pounds. The weight of an equivalent number of ordinary letters would be nearly 1£ tons. The airgraph mail was flown all the way from the Middle East, and only nine days elapsed since its dispatch. The first batch of letters under the scheme was received last Tuesday and numbered 50,000 micro-films. Later it is hoped to institute a similar service from Britain to the sailors, soldiers, and airmen serving in the Middle East.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 7
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117THOUSANDS ARRIVE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 7
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