AMERICAN PLANES
NEW FERRY SERVICE
MACHINES FOR MIDDLE EAST
(Rec. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, August 18,
According to Press reports from Washington, President Roosevelt announced on Monday that an agreement had been reached to expedite the delivery of military planes direct to the British forces in the Middle East.
Under this arrangement the PanAmerican Airways would ferry aircraft to West Africa, and thence to the Middle Eastern war zone. President Roosevelt said that Pan-American Airways were establishing immediately an air transport service from West Africa to the Middle East.
■Plans were under way for a transport service from the United States to West Africa for the purpose of connecting with the new air line. The establishment of the service would be one of the first concrete developments in the increase of American aid, following the meeting with Mr. Churchill.
The President stated that the ferry route would be so arranged that the planes would not pass through the zone of actual warfare.—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 8
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