AIR ROUTE BLOCKADE
LONDON TO AUSTRALIA
PERSIA REFUSES PERMISSION.
BOLSHEVIK HAND REVEALED.
(United Press Assn. —Copyright.)’ (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 11.
The “Daily Mail" says the Imperial air route to India, so triumphantly opened by Sir Samuel Hoare on December 27, will never be used by Imperial Airways, despite the subsidy of £1,'000,000. It cannot send its machines beyond Basra, because Bolshevik and German machinations have resulted in Persia, withdrawing permission to Britain to establish a central link along the coast of Persia, owing to Britain’s refusal to permit the inauguration of air services from a .bureau on the Persian border to Bagdad. Persia- ostensibly applied for permission, but it was an extension of the Bolshevik route from Moscow, operated by Germans,
The London to Australia route, therefore, is useless. The Air Ministry proposes surveying a now route on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf, but the cost of this and the possibility of maintenance without an armed force are problematical.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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