The Archive · 1938

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at 3, 5.30 and 9 p.m in Berlin, having flown over Frankfurt and on to Berlin without land-

Armoured Cars Beat ing. This was the 400th scheduled postal flight of the Lufthansa on the Scottish in Shoot Europe-South America service.

On Friday shortly before noon the plane Nordstern left the South American coast at Natal The South Atlantic was in eleven hours and seventeen minutes and Bathurst on the Africem coast was reached. A connecting plane from there reached Berlin in less than one day so that this 400th scheduled postal flight on the South Americen service was also executed in the shortest time hitherto although on the last part of the journey the weather was bad When in February, 1934, "this air service connection over the ocean was opened by the Lufthansa, the journey ended in Brazil. Today practically all South American states are connected with this, the oldest trans-Atlantic airway service. From various cities of Brazil and the Argentine branch lines spread out over the whole gigantic country and provide a connection with the Syndicate Condor thet runs to Santiago in Chile and Lima in Peru.

On the 400 flights so far carried out by. the Lufthansa more than 25,000,000 letters have been carried between Europe and South America—Trans-Ocean.

An interesting competition was held on the Rifle Range on Sunday between the "Best Ten" of the Shanghai Scottish and the Armoured Car Ca. S.V.C.

The Trained Men's Course (rifle) was fired resulting in a win for the Armoured Car Ca. by a.margin of 68 points.

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