CO129-511-13 Civil Aviation- proposals for experimental passenger and mail service 28-7-1928 - 28-12-1928 — Page 21

Air Ministry Ref:-

S.27606/S.6.

AIR MINISTRY,

ADASTRAL HOUSE,

KINGSWAY, W.C.2.

18 December, 1928.

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Dear Mr. Ellis,

I send you the attached copy of a letter

from the Air Ministry to the Colonial Office in

regard to a scheme for an experimental civil air

service between Canton and Hong Kong. We should be

grateful if a very early reply could be sent to the

War Office on the matter. This is, I appreciate, a

suggestion that the Colonial Office should act very

quickly as compensation for the Air Ministry having

acted too slowly, as the War Office asked our views

on the matter as far back as November 29th. Some

delay has been caused here through the service side

and the civil aviation side both being interested;

our papers were also referred to the Secretary of

State here.

We do not know whether the Colonial Office

have heard anything from the Civil authorities at

W.D. Ellis, Esq., C.M.G.,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.