Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-06-28
Wireless and Aviation Sta
tiOns to Make Rumania
Communication
Center.
JOIN EAST AND WEST
Limousine Planes Overcome
Anxiety of Passen-
gers.
(By The Associated Press }

Bucharest, June 28.-This city will
become huge communication center
for south Europe, both for wireless and
aviation, if present French plans are
carried out. The Marconi company has
offered to build huge wireless station
in Rumania, which would handle bust
ness from the east as well as local
business to the west, but it appears
likely that the Rumanians will either
continue their own wireless service in
connection with the Eifel tower and
other stations in France, or else per-
nit the French to establish such q sta.
ton.
Both British and French firms,
backed up by their governments. are
attempting to arrange complete air
plane service The French propose to
connect Paris, Vienna, Budapest,
Bucharest, and ConstantinOple, In a
general, way, with branch services in
Guiding Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece.
1t is hoped later to extend this serv-
ice into Russia.
French army aviatOrs began last
summer to establish tentative post
service between COnstantinOple and
Bucharest, connecting with the express
train to Paris. This service is being
now developed, but owing to its great
cost it is felt necessary to have each
of the governments over whose terri
tory the airplane service will be con.
Quoted, to contribute pro-rate share
to maintain the service.
500 an Hour.
1t is estimated that the cost averages
500 for each hour the machine is kept
in the air.
In view of the poor conditions of the
railway systems in South Europe, bust
ness men have generally given Their
support to these plans.
Due to the mountains of Central and
Southern Europe and waters OF the
Black Sea, the Adriatic and the Medi
terranean, practical aviation is con
stantly severely tested.
Flying into Russia does not present
the same difficulties. Since the arms
tice huge German machines carrying
Da ssengers and cOntraband moneys and
other articles of speculative nature
have made frequent trips between Mos
COW and Berlin. Now and then, these
ma chimes come down, hut it Is gen
orally because of motor trouble. Dur
ing the Bolshevik regime in Hungary
frequent trips were made to Moscow
though the aviators had to cross the
Carpathian mountains from Budapest.
Limousine Machine.
From a passengers point Of view
such trips do not present any difficulty
once the passenger has overcome the
preliminary apprehension Of danger
This apprehension is much diminished
by the new limousine type Of machine
where the passenger suffers neither
from cold nor wind nor motor noise.
The establishment of these wireless
and airplane communications are a
continuance of the French policy OF
keeping eastern and western Europe
connected. 1t is due to the French
that since the armistice express trains
have been run between Paris and War
saw, passing the intervening cities Of
Prague and Vienna, and also between
Paris and Bucharest, and finally be-
tween Paris and ConstantinOple. These
three which are known as the Warsaw,
Simplon and Orient expresses, were
first under French army control and
are now Under commercial control OF
the Interna tional Sleeping Car COM
pany.