Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of for Air, speaking ut Oxford it night, said that two)
fps would "be completed If experivaents which the for the they would bring Exya: days of England, Ind a within four days, Australia within ten or eleven days' and Now Zealand within twelve} or thirteen days. That would be a. great advantage to the British Empire ard to trade ind commerce generally.
The Air Ministry, Sir Samuel continued, had embarked definitely upon a long period of research and were carrying out a serfes of small. scale experiments. A number of scientists were engaged on the work and great progress in design and knowledge of airships had been made, The Meteorological Offic! had charted the air between England and India and had acquired information about air currents that} had never been known before.
British Wireless through Reuter
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