EMPIRE AIRWAYS
REPORT OF PROGRESS By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON. Thursday. In the House of Commons the Minister of Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, stated with respect to the proposed air routes to Australia and Capetown, that the service between Cairo and Basra was operating once a week each way with 100 per cent, efliciency. 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 the 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 Minister said the experimental route by Khartoum and Kisumu had been interrupted owing to a mishap to a machine.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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135EMPIRE AIRWAYS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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