The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19

ar schedules between Paris and Euro matters of transportation and arma- ment. It would take many words to explain the several branches"
 Thousands of Miles Through the Skies
 How much have you accomplished as to actual flyingg' I asked.
 We have three international lines in daily operation" was the reply, and number of others in rapid course of construction. We are now flying daily from Paris to London. from Paris to Amsterdam via Brus- sels and Rotterdam. and from Paris to Warsaw via Strassburg on the Rhine and Prague, the capital of sCzecho-Slovakia. It takes only nine hours by plane from here to Warsaw, while the distance by rail is farther than from New York to Chicago. This Includes stops for landing passengers and freight at Strassbnrg and Prague. We fly from Paris to Amsterdam in little over four hours with stops at Brussels and Rotterdam. The trip from London to Paris by the ordinary mail route, including the stormy voy- age across the English channel, takes nine hours. It covers almo st 300 miles. The voyage by air is made h less than one-third of that time The actual schedule is bours and 15 min utes. so that one can leave Paris in the middle of the morning or after noon and have his luncheon or dinner at his hetel in London at the same time he would have eaten it had he stayed here. There are now seven planes that leave Paris for London every week day and five planes upon Sunday. The same is the case from London to Paris. On the lines to Am sterdam and Warsaw there is only one flight each way per day
 New Service to ConstantinopIe
 How about your service between Paris and Constantinople?"
 That is in the way of rapid organ ization,r said Mir. Eynac. Tt will be an extension of the line from Paris to Warsaw, the Constantine pie planes going from Prague southward to 3d. dapest and thence on through / the Balkans to Bucharest and Constanti- nopie. We have already connected with Budapest and are making flights to that city. We should have the service to ctnstantinople in actual operation by the time your letter is published. The mail route from Paris to Constantinople is just about 1900 miles. but in these days since the war one can never be sure as to how long it will take te' get letter by railway from one place to the other. By air plane it is sure to go through in a day and half at the most"
 From France to Morocco by Air
 Tn addition to this.' Mir. Eynac con- tinued. We have regular service five times a week between Toulouse in South France. and ,Casablanca in Morocco. That city isl well down on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. The planes fly from Toulouse across the fCot hills of the Pyrenees to Bar relona, the chief port of Spain. They leave Toulouse at and are in Bar celona at 11'So. They stop there Is minutes. and then fly on to Alicante and Malaga along the Spanish coast of the Mediterranean sea They stay over night at Malaga. but at the next morning are again on their way srssthward. They cross the Mediter ranean near the Strait of Gibraltar and then pass over northern Morocco. reaching Casahlanca at 1O
 At present the passengers and freight for this line are carried to Toulouse by express train. but that leg of the trip will eventually be made by plane also. The fare from Toulouse tt' Casablanca is 7S0 francs, which at the varying rates of ex- change now amounts to from s60 to sso. The rate for freight is about Is cents a pound. Just now the line is of the greatest importance in carry ing the mails, as it gives us a close connection with our government work in Morocco.
 ''The distance from Toulouse to Casablanca by air Is perhaps as far as from New York to the Mississippi river, and the cost is about the same as that made by steamer and rail. We shall iengthen the line southward to others of our colonies farther south in Africa. We have an experimental line now running to Dakar in Senegal, and this will be extended on to Kayes in French Equatorial Africa. Even tually we shall have air communt- cation with Togoland, Iahomey. the French Congo, and all of cur African possessions. possibly including Mada- gassar. We are making experiments also as to commercial aviation in Indo-china and in French Guiana. We may even connect :he islands of New caledonia and rat ~ vith France by