NEW MAIL SERVICE.
TO BAGDAD. [“The Times” Service.] (Received this day at 9.25 n.m.) LONDON, May 31. A new land route from the Mediterranean to Bagdad and India, lias been blazed by trial trips across the Syrian desert, in motor cars. Norman Nairn, an ox-New Zealand officer, a member of the Nairn Transport Coy., participated, He explains that it is proposed to inaugurate a mail ami passenger service early in the autumn. Instead of travellers proceeding to Bagdad via Port Said, Basra, Bombay, a 1(5 to 17 days’ journey, the new service brings Bagdad within sixty hours of the Mediterranean, and mails from London to Bagdad will he delivered in eight days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1923, Page 3
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112NEW MAIL SERVICE. Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1923, Page 3
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