IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.
USE OF FLYING-BOATS. DIFFICULTY WITH PERSIA. (British Official Wireless.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY. Aug. 17. A cruise by Royal Air Force flyingboats is now proceeding in Northern Europe. This and tho coming cruiso of flying-boats of tho Southampton typo to Singapore and Australia have directed attention to the possibility of using these craft on tho last section of the Imperial airways route to India. ' At present flights on I lie section botween Basra and Karachi are held up pending the ratification by the Persian Government of an agreement to permit flights along the Persian coast. The value of flying-boats in Imperial communication is generally recognised The Times suggests that two large passenger all-metal boats now being constructed for the Air Ministry might, be used on the Basra-Karachi section, to complete without delay the Egypt-India service. In view of the 100 per cent, reliuh.lity of I lie Cairo-Basra section and of the in creasing volume of mail carried, the belief is justified that the commercial community will use it. freely when the through service is established.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 11
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