Initiation of Air Mail to Rangoon
SINGAPORE SECTION TO BE OPENED LATER. (British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 22. The first air mail from London to Rangoon will leave Croydon to-morrow and is scheduled to Teach Burma on October 1. After flying over the existing Indian route ,via Cairo, Baghdad and Karachi to Calcutta, the mails for Burma "will be flown for the first time over the new 700-milc section via Akyab to Rangoon,. The new section forms another link in Imperial Airways’ projected 10,000 miles England to Australia air mail route.
The first air mail from Rangoon to London is due to leave Rangoon on October 2, arriving at Croydon on October 10. It is hoped that the .Rangoon-Singa-porc section of the Australian Toute will be opened for traffic before Christmas.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7
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