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CEYLON.

HONG KONG.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

MALAY STATES.

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KENYA.

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UGANDA PROTECTORATE.

TANGANYIKA TERRITORY.

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Memo

Sir,

I have the honour to inform you that His

Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been considering the possibility of expanding and speeding up

the existing Empire Air Mail Services. They feel that

the striking progress in aeronautical technique which has been achieved in recent years has made it practicable to formulate for the consideration of all the parts of the Empire concerned an Air Mail Scheme under which all Empire

first class mail matter passing between countries served

by the existing Empire air routes would be conveyed by

air. A scheme of this nature has now been drawn up and

is outlined in some detail in the enclosed memorandum.

Summarised briefly the main features of the

2.

scheme are as follows:-

(i) As from 1937 all Empire first class external mail (except in the case of those Empire countries which cannot, at present, be connected with the United Kingdom by air services) would be carried by air. This would represent an epoch-making advance in the system of Imperial communications but the successful inauguration of the scheme would depend upon its receiving the whole-hearted support of all the Empire

countries

THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING

THE GOVERNMENT OF