BY AIR TO INDIA.
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WEEKLY SERVICES TO START FROM LONDON ARRANGEMENTS EN ROUTE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) Received 11.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, May 2. The Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, in opening the new Croydon aerodrome, announced that he had initialled the head of an agreement between the Government and Imperial Airways for a, regular weekly service between London and India. Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 2. The most probable London to India air route will be: Marseilles, Cairo and •Baghdad. The existing triple screw liners’ trip from London to Paris will he extended to Marseilles. All-metal flying boats, seating fifteen passengers, will traverse the Mediterranean to Cairo, where they will link up with the present service to Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, the latter extending to Delhi.
It is hoped to inaugurate the service in April, 1929.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 9
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146BY AIR TO INDIA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 9
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