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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1931.

EMPIRE AIR MAIL.

PLANS FOR RAPID DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE.

The Master of Setapil is one of The official statement of the Lon- the representatives of the delegadon Chamber of Commerce on their tion, which will be headed by Lord European plans is:- Herbert Scott (president of the "A number of terminal points on Chamber), and will include Sir the Continent about 1,000 miles Geoffrey Clarke. (deputy-chairman diataat from. London" such na Oslo, The ideal of a comprehensive net-

of the Council of the Chamber), Stockholm, Warsaw, Budapest, work of airlines, radiating from Sir Robert McLean (deputy-chair- Rome, and Madrid have been taken London, and eventually linking

man of the Civil Avintian Section), as instances where a machine flying England with India, South Africa and Mr. A. de V. Leigh, accretary by night at an average speed of and Australia with a rapid day

100 miles an hour would enable and night service of air mails, is to

The Master of Semplll described from 1% to 2 days to be saved in be discussed at one of the most im the projected services as "vital the delivery of mails as compared portant official conferences in the necessities to British aviation. It with the ordinary surface methods.

"Vital Necessity."

history of British civil aviation.

is absolutely essential," he said. This would also include the drop- The scheme has been evolved by "that we should put aircraft ser ping of maila without landing at the London Chamber of Commerce, vices on a 24-hour schedule. Night important intermediate stations and the Postmaster-General (Mr.Aying will not only be a great help such 09 Amsterdam, Hamburg. Loes Smith) is to receive a deputato business men, but will also assist, Copenhagon, Cologne, Berlin, Lefp- tion from the Chamber to discuss the whole of the aircraft industry.zig, Munich, Prague, Vienna, Paris. the project and the possibilities of "Our plans are much wider and and Bordeaux among others. It is the Post Office taking the first

more ambitious than more provide considered that such non-stop night steps towards such a service. The ing links with the European caplaervices would not only effect a Under-Secretary of State for Air.tals, although that would naturally speeding up in the delivery of let- Mr. F. Montague, and the Deputy be our first step.

tera, but would also bring home to Director of Civil Aviation, Mr. "We want to progress on to night¦ business men and others the al- F. G L Bertram, will be present flying along the present Indian air vantages to be derived from usine The Arst steps it la proposed to route, which would enable letters the air mail. In addition, the take hayo already been mado from England to delivered in institution of fast services like this known. They are for a night air India within 3 days or so. This would obviously benefit the light mail service between London and would be half the time that the aeroplane Industry in this country.": most of the main capitals of present daytime service

takes. Europe within a radius of 1,000 From that we would progress fur-! miles or so. The service, it is in-ther until we had linked the whole TREASURES OF THE PHARAOHS, tended, will be operated by fast Empire to Britain with services of non-stop machines, carrying mails 24-hours-a-day fying, first сод not only for the chief capitals, but centrating on Africa and the Anti- for intermediate towns. The maile podes. for the latter would be dropped

Bentlt to Industry.

of from the aeroplanes by parachutes. "Chambera

Commerce Colonel the Master of Sempill, throughout the Empire have writ- chairman of the Civil Aviation ten to us with requests for con-excavations at Tel-El Amarna. Section of the Chamber of Com sidering these non-stop mail ser- merce, has given an outline of the vices, which everyone agrees would ambitious proposals which the be of the utmost importance not Chamber will put before the Post only in the business world, but to

Empire aviation generally" master-General.

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