TO INDIA BY AIR
BRITAIN FORESTALLED United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright. . Australian Press Association LONDON. 13th April. The "Morning Post's" aviation correspondent savs that, the definite _ establishment of' a Kabul-Tashkent air service by Russo-German interests, destroys all British hopes of being the first to connect. Britain and India by air. Already Russo-German lines run from M'oscow to Bushire via Teheran while tho proposed British Cairo-Karachi line. has failed to materialise owing to difficulties in Persia. Meanwhile, the Imperial Airwavs is continuing the blind alley lino from Cairo to Barso. which as an almost useless portion of the proposed Cairo-Karachi route. Willi the establishment of fullv equipped aerodromes controlled 'by Russia and German interests carrying lines as far as Bushire and Kabul, it will not be long before thev accomplish the final stage to India.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7
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136TO INDIA BY AIR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 7
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