During the first year of its opera~ tion of the Middle-East route of the Imperial Airway's, 91 schedule services between Cairo and Basta were run with 100 por cent. re" gularity and the average lateness of arrival was never more than thirty minutes. 134,000 miles were flown in 1400 hours and the avorage sped of the journeys was 100 miles an hour.—The total mail carried exceeded 103,000 Ib. weight and the number of letters is esti" mated at nearly 1,900,000, The number of passcnyers carried in the first eleven months was 1,133, Th mail carried by air on the Middle. East route normally reaches Basta. in thirteen day through Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.