AIR LINER OVERDUE.
ATHENS TO ALEXANDRIA.
NO NEWS OF HER ARRIVAL.
SEVEN HUNDRED MILES HOP
(Received April 13. 11.5 p.m.) United Service. LONDON, April J. No news has been received in London of tho British-Indian air mail liner which left Athens at 10.30 a.m. yesterday for Alexandria. The distance is 700 miles. A British official message states that on the arrival of the England-India flying-boat at Athens on Monday the Secre tary of Stato for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, and Air Vice-Marshal Vyvyan, went ashore to tho British Legation. Later they dined there with Mr. Vcnizelos, tho Greek Premier.
Tho first mail air liner for India, left Croydon aerodromo on Tuesday morning, called at Le Bourget, near Paris, and reached Hale, Switzerland, at 6.45 p.m. The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan, and his private secretary travelled on the Argosy as far as Bale and thero transferred to tho night express for Genoa, where they embarked on an allmetal Short-Calcutta air-boat for Alexandria.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 9
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170AIR LINER OVERDUE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 9
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