Refusal of German Minister to Sign Agreement Berlin, May 14.
The German Government has ruled out the possibility of a Far Eastern air mail service vid Russia as_ uneconomical, The Minister of Communications in a statement to the Budget committee said that a Moscow-Peking-Shanghai line would traverse the most deserted portion of the earth end would require too heavy. subsidies.
He said he would refuse to sign the agreement concluded between the Lufthansa and the Chinese Aviation Ca, On the other hand the Government was prepared to subsidise fifty per cent, of the cost of a Berlio-Baghdad line to link up with the British lines to India and Australi It would also support a tran
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