NEW AIR ROUTE.
DISTANCE TO HONG KONG
RUGBY, Dec. 19
London will be brought within eight and a-half days of Hong Kong after to-morrow, when the new Imperial Airways route will be opened between Hong Kong and Bangkok. The new airline will be a branch of the main Eng-land-Australia air route, connecting with the latter at Bangkok ,and is 400 miles snorter than the former .Imperial Airways line to Hong Kong via Penang. The service will be maintained by liners of the Diana class.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 19, 20 December 1937, Page 9
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84NEW AIR ROUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 19, 20 December 1937, Page 9
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