AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

GERMAN AIRLINES. ACROSS BRITAIN. Australian Press Assn.—United Service . LONDON, Aug. 21. A German plan to establish airlines from Ireland to the Continent across the heart of England is revealed by the “Daily Express.” The Junkers firm propose to run passenger aeroplanes from Queenstown via Dublin, Liverpool and Hull. Trans-Atlantic passengers will be picked up at Queenstown and raced to Hull where seaplanes will carry them across the Nortlr Sea to Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm, thereby saving from thirty-six to thirty-eight hours. There will l>e a. connecting airline from Hull to London, linking up with the present Paris-Berlin-A ieniia service. It is expected that the time between Dublin and London will also he reduced from twelve to three hours.

It is stated that the idea was originally submitted to tlie Imperial Airways and rejected. Junkers enthusiastically took it up. The Daily Express aviation expert points out that Germany is at present operating 144,500 miles of European air routes, France 8,800, and Britain one thousand. Germany’s ICO airliners fly forty thousand miles, and Britain’s twenty-one fly three thousand. Tlie Express editorially describes it as humiliating and alarming, and the British record a disgrace, and asks: “Are we to witness tlie staggering spectacle of German aircraft flying regularly across England. Neither self respect nor comntonsenso can allow it.”

The Commoner Captain F. E. Guest says unless England is careful the airway to tlie Cape, tlie most valuable within the Empire will also bo captured by foreigners.