The Archive · 1934

IN BRITAIN

London, Aug. 20.

The new postal and passenger air service linking London, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast and Glasgow, and other cities was inaugurated to-day.

Both of the machines kept on their course solely by directional wireless.

The other services linking Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, "Cardi Cowes, Plymouth and Southamptor were Successfully conducted.

The Inter-City airmail service offers. facilities whereby letters may be sent at ordinary postal rates and marks an advance in the development. of airmail service in Great Britain—Wireless and Reuter, Four million eight hundred thousand unemployed were given work in the United States since March, 1933, thus bringing the number of jobless down from 13,203,000 to 800,000, it was anounced by the National Industrial Office—Havas.

Mme. Claude Debussy Paris, Aug. 21.

The death has occurred in Paris, at the age of 72, of Mme. Claude Debussy, widow of the French composer, who died in 1918. Deceased twas & niece of the philanthropist. Mf.

Osiris.

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

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