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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1938.
NEW AIR ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA: POSSIBLE. RESULT OF R.A.F. NON-STOP FLIGHT
A new air route to Australia may 1,400 miles shorter than the normal be the ultimate result of the non-commercial
route, and involves stop flight from Egypt to that considerably shorter ocean cros- country which the R.A.F. Long sings than the direct great circle Range Development Unit carried line, out last month.
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The increasing range of modera The ordinary commercial air aircraft any make such a route route from Egypt to Port Darwin,,practicable for both Service and by Basra, Karachi, Calcutta, Ran-commercial purposes at no distant goon and Singapore, is approxi- date. mately 8,400 miles. Even the specially equipped Wellesleys of the Long Range Development Unit, which are said, to have a range of 7,500 miles in still air, cannot make
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a non-stop flight over this-*"route, HOURS FROM
but must take a shorter line.
The direct-great circle-route. from -Ismailia, on the Suez Canal, to the North West Cape, the near- est point on the Australian coast, -is only 6,550 miles; but it involves an ocean crossing of 5,070 miles without passing near any land. ex- cept the Maldive and Cocos Islands.
HAZARDOUS ROUTE
VANCOUVER
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· LINK · WITH HONG KONG
When the great
airway across
This would be a somewhat, Canada from Montreal to Vancou- hazardous trip for single-engine ver is fully open next year and the machines like the Wellesleys, and Transatlantic service is in opera- such a route is unlikely to betion, Vancouver will be within 80 followed by ordinary commercial or hours of London, Service aircraft for some years to
come.
For some months mails have been regularly carried. between There remains a further alterna- Vancouver and Winnipeg, and on tive, a route. from Ismailia direct some branch lines, at six to Ceylon and thence to a point on (3d) for the first ounce and five the coast of Australia near King's cents for each ounce extra. Almost Sound. This is about 7,000 miles,perfect reliability has been attain-
'SHAME BROUGHT ON GERMAN PEOPLE"
London, Nov. 27. resolution demanding that no belligerency rights be granted to Nationalist Spain was passed at a political meeting held in Trafalgar Square to-day, organized by International Peace. Campaign. A copy of this resolution sent to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain,
Was Mr.
ed.
cent's
Trial mail runs are now being made on the eastern. section, and over the entire route special freight consignments have been carried.
The programme for the visit of the King and Queen to Canada has not yet been settled in detail, but it is expected to include a visit to the Montreal terminus of the line.
are
100 AERODROMES
more than 100 aerodromes and lan-
The route, on which there
ding fields, and a complete, radio, the lighting, and weather reporting system, is 2,500 miles long. The schedule will provide for 19 hours on the westward run, and 21 hours Speakers at the meeting were from west to east, the difference Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Indepen-being due to the prevailing winds. dent M. P. for the Combined Eng-
There will be seven intermediate lish Universities, Mr. Vernon Bar- stops: tlett Liberal M. P. for Bridgewater, { From Botwood, the airport for Mr. George Strauss, Labor M. P. the trans-Atlantic air route, the for North Lambeth, and Mr. Alfred distance to. Montreal is 890 miles. Barnes, Labor M. P. for south East Ham.
A resolution was also sent to the German Embassy protesting against the anti-Semitic persecutions and against the shame brought upon the German people" by the "bar baric acts of their Government."- Havas
"NIKS:
Eventually there will be a British air route across the Pacific from Vancouver, but before that is ac- complished it will be possible, by taking the American air line from Vancouver to San Francisco, to fly all the way round the world, linking up at Hong Kong with the Imperial -Airways system.
For the trans-Canada line, in ad- dition to various types which have been used on sections, 15 Lockheed- 14s are being, delivered. This fleet is costing more than £800,000. The type of air liner is similar to that used by British Airways on the London-Lisbon service, and, modified- for military purposes, is the type of which 200 have been ordered by the British Air Minis- tryi
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