BRITISH HOPES DASHED
AIR SERVICE IN EAST RUSSO-GERMAN LINE GETS IN (United P.A.—By Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian Press Association) LONDON, Friday. The aviation correspondent of the “Morning Post” says that the definite establishment of an air service between Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and Tashkent, in Turkestan —an air-line distance of about 500 miles — by Russian and German interests, destroys the British hopes of being the first to connect Britain and India by air. Already, it is pointed out, RussoGerman lines run from Moscow to Bushire, on the Persian Gulf, via Teheran, while the proposed British service from Cairo to Karachi, India, has failed to materia’ise owing to difficulties experienced in Persia. Meanwhile the Imperial Airways is continuing the blind alley line from Cairo to Basra, in Mesopotamia, at the head of the Persian Gulf, which is an almost useless portion of the proposed Cairo-Karachi route. The correspondent says that with the establishment of fully-equipped airdromes, controlled by Russian and German interests, and carrying lines as far as Bushire and Kabul, it will not be long before they accomplish the final stage to India.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 9
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