AIR LINER AT ATHENS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9

AIR LINER AT ATHENS

ENGLAND-INDIA FLIGHT SIR S. HOARE FOR CAPETOWN (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 10.42 a.m. ATHENS, Monday. The first British air liner which is inaugurating a seven-day mail and passenger service between England and India, arrived here to-day. According to a British official wireless message the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, accompanied by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan and his private secretary, who are travelling as far as Egypt by the new England-to-India air service, arrived on scheduled time at Naples. At Basle (Switzerland) they transferred from the huge Armstrong-Sid-deley air liner to the night express for Genoa, where they embarked on a British seaplane and reached Naples yesterday evening. General de Pinedo, Chief of the Italian Air Force, and other representatives of the Italian Government greeted them there. On reaching Egypt Sir Samuel Hoare will fly along the projected air route to Capetown, travelling 800 miles a day, returning to Egypt to catch the air mail from India to London in time for the reassembly of Parliament on April 15. The first air-mail liner from India will also carry Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond and Lord Chetwynd, vice-chairman of Imperial Airways, and his daughter.