ACROSS AFRICA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 282, 2 December 1935, Page 9

ACROSS AFRICA

A NEW AIR SERVICE. Imperial Airways developments are to include a trans-African line connecting Khartoum, a station on the Engla.il Cape route, with Central and West Africa, says the Daily Telegraph. ►Several subsidiary lines and auxiliary services are projected by French, Belgian, and British operators in these regions. A survey for the purpose of organising supplies and servicing of aircraft is about to be carried out by Air. W. K. Brett. Mr. Brett will fly a Percival Gull” monoplane. He will start from Cairo, and will carry out an inspection tour of about. 15,000 miles. After reaching Khartoum, he will travel by the intended Imperial Airways route, taking in El Obeid, El Fasher, Abeshe, Fort Lamy, and Maidugari. The journey will include calls at about 40 aerodromes, where officials will be interviewed and reports prepared. Maidttgari, in the north east corner of Nigeria, will probably be a British main-route terminus. Within the next two years a network of subsidiary lines, operated independently, will cover a greater part of what used, within living memory, to be known us “darkest Africa.” A French line has already started opt rations between Niamey and the coast of Dahomey at Kotonu. Mr. Brett will meet Mr. Vuillemin, who has extensive experience of African travel, at Gao, on the southern edge of the Sahara. Mr. Vuillemin left Algiers recently in charge of the third annual expedition which has been set to overhaul existing aircraft service stations and to set up new ones. He will accompany Mr. Brett on his