SAFETY ON AIR ROUTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1945, Page 5

SAFETY ON AIR ROUTES

RADIO LIGHTHOUSES LONDON, March 23. The trunk airline route between London and Johannesburg will be studded with radio lighthouses, stated the Chief Scientific Adviser m General Smuts, Dr. B. F Schonland, speaking at a Southern African An Transport Council meeting at Cape T °Di\ 'Schonland added that these will give planes their position at any given time. In addition, use would be made of all the latest meteorological and radar devices developed, during the war, on the route opening in July. „ A permanent committee has been formed to inquire if the present scientific facilities available toi trunk and regional routes will bfadequate for civil aviation, and m suggest improvements. “WAR” DECLARED WASHINGTON, March 22. Senator Brewster told the U.S. Senate that the Senate Commeice Sub-Committee was studying a proposal to establish a 1,000,000,000 dollars air line to handle the American foreign air trade. The United States had departed from the Chicago aviation conference declaring war on Britain and Russia in the air. General Brewster attacked the United States commitment to freedom of the air as a policy of cut throat competition.” He said it had intimated a trade war in the air that might have catastrophic consequences. The United States at the Chicago conference attempted to align as many countries as possible against Great Britain, with the result that Britain, in her recent White Paper very definitely declared war on the United States.