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SUPPLIES PROM ’PLANES LONDON, Nov. IS. The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Bagdad reports that air force pilots dropped food anil supplies to succor the passengers ol motor convoys, believed to belong to the regular service across the Syrian dcseit, which had been stranded on their COO miles trip from Beirut. Several of them had been stuck for seven days in a sea of mud caused by the exceptional rainfall. The convoys reduce the inuvney from Bagdad to London from 22 days to eight day's.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7
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