AIR MAIL SERVICE
INDIAN EXTENSIONS.
(Per Press (Received 8.25 a.m.) N RUGBY, November'll
In the House of Commons today the Secretary for India, Captain Wedgwood Benn, was asked about extension' of the India mail service to Calcutta and Rangoon. He replied that negotiations were being carried on for extension of the service from Karachi to Delhi and subsequently to Calcutta. When experience had been gained of the working of the Karachi-Calcutta section, extension of the service to Rangoon would be considered.
DUTCH GRIEVANCE,
DELIBERATE OBSTRUCTION,
(Received .0 a.m.)
THE HAGUE, November 13,
Declaring that difficulties were'being placed in the way of Dutch air services between Holland , and the Dutch East Indies by the British authorities in England and India, M. Knottonbelt, during a debate in the • « Second Chamber, alleged that thele were due to jealousy.
t He said that the Dutch services
were working well, while British services with other countiies wore still defective. He suggested that as air communication between Australia and other parts of the British Empire was impossible without the co-operation of the Dutch East Indies, application of the principle of reciprocity might have a useful effect upon the attityde of the British Government.
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