Evening star., 1922-10-01
Digest of Foreign Press

| lines. and greatly facilitates the rapid
| carrying of passengers. mails and
| goods. Up to the present the fol-
| lowing main lines are now working
Paris to London. Paris TO Brussels
and Amsterdam. Paris TO Strasbourg.
! Prague and Warsaw: Paris to Stras-
| bourg. Prague. Vienna and Budapest
| Paris to Lausanne. Antilles to Ajaccio
| Toulouse to Barcelona and Casa
blanca. Paris to lie Havre. Two lines
have further been established In
| French Guiana. which runs between
| Saint Laurent to mini. these latter
having been in activity for about two
| years.
During the year 1922 the French
aerial system will be furthed devel-
oped. A regular service between
Paris and Constantinople via Bucha-
rest is being already completed, as
also a regular service between Lon
! dom Paris and Marseille and another
| between this latter town and Genoa.
In North Africa new lines VIII De es-
tablished from Algiers to Biskra.
| When these different works are com
pleted the French aerial system will
cover a space Of 10000 kilometers.
Aerodromes are being installed along
the different lines about fifty kllo-
| meters apart. The working of these
different lines Is assured by six COM
panies, which undertake the carly
| ing Of passengers, goods and mails
| on the Paris-London and various
other lines.
The French government has further
| decreed certain protective measures
to secure the safety OF flying. The
machinery of aerial companies is sub.
mitted to frequent ofhciai examina-.
| tions. and no machine can leave the
ground without being carefully ex-
amined by a controller Of aerial nav
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| aerodromes. The airplanes must
possess a certificate of navigable ca
I pacity, only delivered by the techni-
| cal services of the air ministry after
| several tests. The pilots must hold
license. only granted after serious
professional studies, and they are
subject to periodical medical exami-
| nation to prove their physical fit
ness. Wireless stations have been
| Installed at each landing ground. so
that pilots can obtain at each stage
Of their Journey s, al na,,ia1s Information as to
| During the first four months OF the
current year the various companies
| carried sixty-one tons of goods
against thirty eight in the same pc.
1 riod Of 1891, and over seven tons OF
mail, against 1900 kilogrammes dur
ing the first four months of last,
, year. In May the statistics for 1922
/ reached above thirty-nine tons of
goods and $500 kilogrammes of
mail, against thirteen tons Of goods
and 704 kilogrammes Of mail In 1921.
Such figures need no comment. At
present we may - from Paris to
| London in two .feurs <:.hout chang
ing. The distance between Paris and
| Amsterdam IL covered in four hours
| fifteen minutes. and an airplane
makes the journey between Paris and
warsaw In nine hours. Communica-
tion Is effected between Toulouse and
Casablanca in one day. while for
merly the same journey by ordinary
means took four days.
| The airplane, by its rapidity. is
| proving itself the competitor. not
only OF the postal, but also OF the
telegraph service. as for a trihing
excess In price q letter can be sent
by aerial mail with equal speed to
that of kilograms. In France we also
consider aircraft as a powerful factor
| in economic expansion and pacific
penetration. Every day French aero
| planes flying over the various capi-
tails Of Europe and North Africa,
carry to these countries the products
Of our industry. and prove valuable
IpropaEandists for our influence
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