OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

HONOURED DEAD. CREW OE SUBMARINE bud. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 30, Forty bodies of the crew of tbo submarine L 55, sunk in tbo Baltic nine years ago, and brought from Kronstadt on hoard the British merchant ship Truro, will be transferred on Friday morning to tbe British cruiser H.M.S. Champion, which arrived at lleval today to receive them.

- The Soviet authorities are placing wreaths on the coffins, and are providing a military'Guard of Honour at the port.

H.M.S. Champion is expected to arrive at Portsmouth next Wednesday when the bodies will lie in state in the port blockhouse, tbe headquarters of the submarine flotilla. Full naval honours will be accorded the victims. IMPORTANT AIR PORT. SOUTHAMPTON’S FUTURE. RUBGY, August 30. Sir Eric Geddes, chairman of Imperial Airways Ltd., who yesterday, with other directors and friends, made a trial trip from Southampton to the Channel Islands and hack- in one of the new Calcutta flying boats, which is to be used on tho Empire air lino to India, stated that within eighteon months Southampton would become one of the most important air ports in the world, and would probably ho the starting place of tho great Empire ailservice.

It is expected that the air service to India will start next April. Imperial Airways consider that the all-metal Singapore type is tho best flying boat yet developed, either in this or any other country. It is intended to run an air service with these craft across the Mediterranean to join up with the existing-Cairo-Basra service. This service will then ho extended to India, thereby fulfilling the scheme recently outlined in the ' House of Commons by Sir Samuel Hoarc Air. Minister.