FIVE DAYS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 7

FIVE DAYS.

LONDON TO SYDNEY. AERO MAIL SERVICE. KENWORTHY\S ADVICE. .Flee. Tot. Copyright—United Pi css Assn.' >Aus; rulmn and i\.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. Jim. 28. fn an article in the Outlook, Commander Kon worthy, M.P., urges tho extension, without delay, of the Egyptian-Indiaii air service to Rangoon and Australia. He contends that ihei-p are no technical difficulties to a weekly bothAvay service in Australia, Avhieli Avould cost less than £300,(J00 yearly on a basis of 5s per ton permit e. Sydney could he brought within five days of London by day and night, flying or ton days by day flying. There was nor much future for a passenger service, but the British, Indian and Australian Governments, by a commercial service, would save much in cabling costs. A great advantage would lm Die quickened despatch of commercial document s. The ' services could not be “All Red,’’ as the existing European and Asian routes must he used, titmice the Dutch East Indies Io Lanvin. •

DELAY IN AUSTRALIAN .SERVICE. ECONOMY RESULT. AIR MINISTRY’S WARNING TO GOVERNMENT. LONDON, Jan. 20. The special •representative of The Sun understands that tlie recommendations of the Cohvyn Economy Committee of a, reduction in the Air Ministry estimates is disturbing Imperial Airways, Ltd., who. it is feared, may decide to delay the Jndo-Australian airship scheme until the scheme for home defence has been further ddvelopc’d. The Director of Civil Aviation, Sir Seffon Branrker, has already significantly remarked that "the - economy ai present. being advocated may greatly delay the construction of Anglo Indian air ships.” The Air Ministry is impressing on the Government the danger of any postponement, both from the financial and Imperial viewpoints, pointing out- that a delay in the Anglo-Australian service, owing to the report of a committee which was primarily formed to deal with departmental extravagance, would certainly produce disappointment- in Australia and Tnilia. AUSTRALIA’S SEAPLANES. Commander C. K. Burney, M.P., the promoter of the Empire airship scheme, is to have an immediate conference with the Air Ministry. , The first of the six seaplanes for Australia, the Seagull,' will ho launched at Southampton on February 6. AMERICA’S GIANT BOMBER. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.

A bombing ’plaiie, with a 1200 horsepower motor, capable of making a nonstop flight from New York to London is being constructed at the plant of the Huff Daland Airplane Company, at Bristol, Pennsylvania. It will be tho largest and fastest single-engined bomber in the world, and will he named “Cyclops.” “Cyclops,” it is promised, will have a speed of 135 miles an hour. Its weight will be 17,0C01h., an,d it- will carry a load of 90,0001 b. [A previous message stated that the Economy Committee, presided over by Lord Cohvyn, would recommend a reduction of - £20,000,000 in the cost of Britain’s fighting'forces. The Air Ministry would he asked to save £7,0C0,0C0. It is believed that the committee recommended that the total expenditure on the Air Force he limited to £17,000.000, which would mean a- considerable revision of the Air Ministry's expansion programme]. .