Two New Dirigibles to be Completed London, Mar. 12.
The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, introduced the Air Estimates in ' the House of Commons to-day.
The Estimates amount to £16,-
200,000.
Sir Samuel mentioned that within the next twelvemonth two new airships would be completed. The vital problem. was to quicken Imperial communications. The extra money he was asking for civil a tion would result, he hoped, that we should begin, during the course of the year, the biggest civil air route in the world, namely, weekly mail service to Indic, taking seven days from London to Delhi and nine from London to Calcutta.
The Government, he said, had not yet negotiated with the Dutch, but once the India service was running it was hoped to push on tu the Dutch East Indies and Australia—ut
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