FUTURE IN AIR
EMPIRE MUST ACT. OR FALL AT CHALLENGE. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, January 22. Commander Boothby, lecturing at the Colonial Institute, said: “Unless the Empire takes to the air and develops the air sense, the same as it developed the sea sense, it must crumble at the first serious challenge.’’ He suggested that the best stops for the Britain-Australia route were Egypt, Delhi, Singapore, and Darwin. Australia might erect its own base at Darwin, and run the service to Singapore. The chain could scon be completed, if the work was begun at both ends. Australasia should establish an airship construction industry, and maintain a fleet of airships available in war time in the Pacific.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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116FUTURE IN AIR New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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