The Archive · 1928

Dutch Enterprise in the Air

Imperial Airway Service to India Forestalled London, Sept. 13.

Reuter'y correspondent at Basrah telegraphs that aeroplanes forming the first Dutch air-mail service Batavia are due to arrive at Bagdad on September 15.

They will take on board the Iraq wails for Persia, India, Malaya and beyond.

"The Times" correspondent Mesopotamia laments Une fact sist the Imperial Airway Service to India has been forestalled in spite of "en Jess talk and expensive subsidies bhut congratulates the Dutch on their superior enterprise—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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