PACIFIC AIRMAIL
SERVICE TO EUROPE Airmail service via Europe to western Asia and Africa, disrupted by the European conflict, has now been resumed by way of Los Angeles over the Clipper route across the Pacific, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Mail goes by way of Hongkong to points all across southern Asia, including Iraq, Palestine and thence to Egypt, Sudan and South Africa.
The time varies from 12 days to Indo-China, up to 22 days to South Africa. The postage rate is 70 cents per half ounce for all points from Indo-China to the Sudan in Africa and 85 cents to 95 cents to points in central and south Africa. Thus it is possible to reach Cape Town in about three weeks’ air time from oLs Angeles, as compared with four or five weeks by steamer from New York
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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140PACIFIC AIRMAIL Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 5
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