POLAR AIR ROUTE

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1937, Page 9

POLAR AIR ROUTE

AMERICA TO ASIA And New Zealand [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] OTTAWA, August 19. It is reported that the Trans-Can-ada Airlines Company and the PanAmerican Airways Company will shortly discuss the establishment ot a Trans-Arctic Air Service, linking America and Canada with China and Japan. , , The proposed route will be: Edmonton, Fairbanks, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand. This route, it is claimed, will eliminate any' transocean hops exceeding 2,000. miles. TASMAN SERVICE. ( WELLINGTON, August 19. Mr. Nash stated to-day that a statement in regard to the procedure of* getting the trans-Tasman air service under way would be made within a few davs. CAPETOWN, August 18. Mrs. Bonney arrived, thus concluding a four months’ flight from Australia. She will return to Australia by boat. MOSCOW, August 18. Ten stratosphere planes, carrying huge portraits of Stalin, Voroshilov and other leaders, ascended as part of Russia’s fifth annual aviation festival. The planes were visible for miles. Newspapers predict that all the world’s records will be held next year by the Soviet. PARIS, August 18. After taking off for Istres to participate in the air race, Codos received a radio warning that a tyre had burst, enabling him to make a safe landing. The race begins on August 20. The thirteen entrants include eight. Italians, among whom is Bruno. Mussolini, four Frenchmen, and one Britisher, Flying-Officer Clouston.