EMPIRE AIRWAYS.
PROGRESS OUTLINED. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND BTJX CABLE.) (Received November 18th, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 18. In the House of Commons, Sir Samuel Hoare, in answer to questions relating to the proposed air routes to Australia and Cape Town, stated that the service to Cairo and Basra was operating weekly each way, with a hundred per cent, efficiency.
. For the next stage, to Karachi, the Persian Government had not yet agreed to a route along the shores of the Persian Gulf. ■ The Government of India was organising a route from Karachi to Calcutta. The Royal Air Force had already surveyed the link from Calcutta to Rangoon and Singapore.
With reference to the South African route, the experimental service from Khartoum to Kisumu had been interrupted owing to a mishap to a machine.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 15
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137EMPIRE AIRWAYS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 15
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