MAILS BY AIR
AUSTRALIAN DELIVERY DELAYED United Press Association -Bv Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received July 8. 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. July 8. The air mails being brought from London by the flying boat Cassiopeia will be two days later reaching Australia. the machine having been forced down at the small island of Koh Samui, off the coast of Siam, owing to engine trouble. ORDERS FOR FLYING BOA BRITAIN’S BIG VENTURE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 7. The Air Ministry lias placed the • oiggest order ever placed in any countr u for military flying-boats, says ‘ -he • Daily Telegraph.” The type is a Hort-Sunderland heavily-armed four-engined flyingboat, embodying much secret mentThe contract involves £1,000,000.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21084, 9 July 1938, Page 17
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114MAILS BY AIR Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21084, 9 July 1938, Page 17
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