GERMAN AIR LINERS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 24, 23 August 1928, Page 7

GERMAN AIR LINERS

ACROSS BRITISH ISLES

HUMILIATING AND ALARMING

LONDON, Aug. 21

German plans to establish airlines from Ireland to the Continent across the heart of England] are revealed by the Daily Express. The Junkers firm proposes to run passenger aeroplanes from Queenstown via Dublin, Liverpool and HulL Trans-Atljintlo passengers will be picked up a* Queenstown an d raced to Hull, ■whence seaplanes will" - carry them ncros s the North Sea to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, thereby saving from 36~T0 S 8 hours. There will be a connecting airline from. Hull to Louden••linking up with tlio present Paris-Berlin-Vienna service. It is expected (the time be-t-ween Dublin and London will be! reduced from 12 to three hours. It is stated tlie idea Was originally submitted' to Imperial Airways and , rejected. Junkers enthusiastically took it> up. The Daily Express aviation expert points out that) Germany is at present operating 14,000 miles of European air routes, France 8800 miles, and Britain 1000 miles. Germany's 160 airlines , fly 40,000 miles, And Britain's 21 fly, 3000. "' *!*!

Tlie Daily Express editorially describes the scheme as.•humiliating and alarming, and tlio British record as a disgrace. Tt asks: "Are to to witness the stafgering spectacle ot German aircraft flying regularly across England; neither self-respect! nor common-seng mn allow it."

Captain E. E. Guest, M.P., says unless England is careful tho airwavsto* the Gape, the most valuable within the Empire, will also bo captured by foreigners.