EMPIRE AIR CENTRE
Construction Of Aerodrome At Cyprus. Press Association —Copyright. • London, January 22. Plans are rapidly being completed for making Cyprus a great British strategtic air centre, including the construction of a £250,000 aerodrome at Nicosia with underground hangars for 50 aeroplanes. It is also proposed to increase the garrison of Cyprus from the strength of one company to a battalion, and to build new barracks at Nicosia, costing £30,000, to replace the present obsolete quarters at Polymedia. The importance of Cyprus from a strategic viewpoint has been enormously increased by the completion of the oil pipeline from the Iraq oilfields to the Mediterranean terminals.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 341, 23 January 1937, Page 5
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106EMPIRE AIR CENTRE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 341, 23 January 1937, Page 5
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