IMPERIAL AIR ROUTE.
PERSIA BLOCKS THE WAY. NEW SURVEY WILL BE NECESSARY. London, August 11. The “Daily Mail” savs the Imperial air route to India, triumphantly opened by Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare on December 27. will never be used by Imperial Airways. Ltd., despite the £1,000,000 subsidy. It cannot send its machines bevond Basra, because Bolshevik and German machinations have resulted in Persia withdrawing a permission to Britain to establish a central link coastwise in Persia owing to Britain’s refusal to permit the inauguration of air servees from Gurean. on the Persian border, to Bagdad. Persia ostensibly applied for permission, but it was an extension of the Bolshevik route from Moscow, onerated by Germans. The LondonAustralia route, therefore is useless. The Air Ministry proposes surveying a new route on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf. The cost of this and the possibility of maintenance without an armed force are problematic.—(Sydney “Sun” cable
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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154IMPERIAL AIR ROUTE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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