AIRSHIPS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT CUTS ITS
PROGRAMME.
UYERPOOL SYNDICATE SETS TO WORK. , /
i"A WORLD-WIDE SCHEME PRE- ", - PARED.
Received Sept. 2, 9.30 p.m
LONDON, Sept. 2. '. Though the Government's decision to drastically curtail the airship ;pro•grainme is deplored in some quarters, .as savouring on panic and'likely to hamper progressive developments, a Liverpool syndicate proposes to inaugurate in May 1920 world-wide services by rigids carrying 150 passengers and non-rigids for" shorter voyages* carrying fifty passengers. Liverpbol will be the principal base for the isedyoces, which will include all the European capitals, • Australia, North and South America, South Africa, and (the Far East. The, syndicate proposes to buy the Government's uncompleted airships. '_~'.
Receive? Scut L' 7.30 p.m. LONDON Sept. 1
* Owing to the Government's decision to curtail the airships programme, it has been decided to place certain. airships, airship stations and stores at the disposal of interested parties, with a to commercial developments.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 5
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149AIRSHIPS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 5
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