Commenting on. Sir, Erie's ree marks, the "Morning. Post" writes 13 follows:—
"A Transatlantic Air Mail Service within three years! The prediction is made bythe Chait-Fpan of imperial Aleways, Joe it surprise us, since negoti Hot on the subject have ben go Ing on between America and this country for some time." Whether the mails will be carried by flying boats or by aeroplanes is a bract cal side of the. question sih doubt, but the possibility at least is established, "There are people who complain that our air" setv-Tees re artifcally: fostered. by
that Aying has been an expensive Site Subadin, and Ge trae infant to fear. The hope is, how: ever, that as it grows.eo ie will Become. independent. "Last year the total subsidy of Imperial 'Air ways "vas under £500,000, which is, at, all events, a smaller sum than is spent by other countries on similar. enterprises, and Took' forward to seeing. the sub-Sidy disappear altogether: The tevoplanes fy to scheduled time tecidents are few, the passage is comfortable." By the use of wire:
the development of power red even the English climate: itvand. flies over. astenger between London and Paris looks up to blue skies and down ona glimmering Roar" of cloud. "The skies are being divid-between nations. Both Donal Airways andthe French Kiev and Pavia: Groydon-Berlin and the Dutch the Croydon-Amsterdam services. Ex-{ending our view, we have, besides Gur London to Bare service, the Sroup of Mu boats which wor eross the Afediterranean between Brindisi and Beypt, and the aeroplanes which fy south from Cairo ortho 'Cape and eastwards. to Dethic, With the feet of eight tae now building, there should Within the next lear a nine days' service to the. Cape, coming down to seven days later fon, and on the Indian side we may confidently look for the extension by way of Singapore to Australia. There are large developments, in which the British pilot and the ish aeroplane, manufacturer play a notable part." pant of a stamp collection recently, realised £2,900 Plomridge's, and included a two-shilling Ceylon stamp, dated 1867, which brought £90,
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