EMPIRE AIR SERVICE
LONDON TO INDIA. SIR SAMUEL HOARE AND PARTY. GREETED AT NAPLES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless). Received April 2, 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, April 1. The Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, accompanied by Air-Vice Marshal Sir Vyell Vyry'an jnd his private secretary, who are tfiavellirig as far as Egypt by the new England to India Air service, arrived at the scheduled time at Naples. At Basle they transferred . from the huge Siddeley air liner to the night express for Genoa, .where they embarked on a British, seaplane, reaching Naples yesterday evening. . General De Pinedo and other representatives of the Italian Government greeted them. On reaching Egypt, Sir Samuel Hoare will fly along the projected air route to Capetown, travelling .800 miles daily, returning to Egypt to catch the air mail from India to London in time for the reassembly of Parliament—on- April 15. The first air-mail liner from India will also carry -Air Vice Marshall Sir Geoffrey Salmond and Lord Chetwynd, vice-chairman of Imperial Airways, Limited, and his, daughter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7
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174EMPIRE AIR SERVICE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7
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