AIR ROUTE TO INDIA.
PERSIA RENDERS IT USELESS. OPPOSITION TO CENTR AL LINK. ST CABLE -PRESS ASKOCI A.TION--COPV HIGH'! LONDON, Aug. 11. The “Daily Mail’’ says thie Imperial air route to India, triumphantly opened by Sir Samuel Hm.res cm December 27, H>26, will never be u.seci by the lmpeiral Airways. Despite a £1,000,000 subsidy, it cannot send machines beyond Basra, because Bolshevik i.sd German machinations have resulted in Persia withdrawing permission to Britain to establish tiie central Jink coastwise along Persia, owing to Britain’s refusal 1q permit the inauguration ol air services from Qureau, on the Persian border, to Bagdad. Persia ostensibly applied for permission, but it was for the extension of the Bolshevik route 1 from Moscow, operated by Germany. The LondonAustralia route, therefore is useless. The Air Ministry proposes surveying ia new route on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf. The cost of tlds ami the possibility of maintenance without an armed force are probleora ticail.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 August 1927, Page 5
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159AIR ROUTE TO INDIA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 August 1927, Page 5
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