MAIL, First Machines Leave London to Inaugurate New Service London, Dec. 19.
Yesterday marked the first stage the inauguration of the Cairo-Karachi Air Service. A machine eft London in the early morning and after two baure and a half at Lo Bourget near Paris, proceeded towards Marseilles, It was, ever, found necessary to land at Lyons, The passengers included Air Vice Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker, Dir-actor of Civil Aviation and three others. The aeroplane will travel vid Naples to Malta, where it will await the arrival of the second machine which leaves London to-mor-
The third machine, the one which Sir Samuel Honre accompanied by Lady Hoare and his staff fare expected to travel is expected to leave on December 27. From Malta the route will be vid Home to Cairo, where the first machine expected on December 24. It remain there temporarily and the second machine will proceed to Basra. The machine, which will reach Cairo early in the New Year, will leave for Basta on Jan-vary 12 and thence by way of Karachi to Delhi.
'A regular service will be opened in each direction between Cairo and Basra forthwith, but the Basra. Karachi section will not open until April.
Air lines will leave Cairo each Wednesday on the arrival of the} mail bout from England and the return machines will leave Basra every alternate Saturday When in operation, the service will bring Karachi one week nearer to London.
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