Evening star., 1925-11-22


the international aerial rates.
~ both for letters and express
packages. had been fixed for
all Europe and a good part of Africa.
For Prague. you add TO your ordi-
nary scent letter 6 cents air-taX plus
cents extra air-tax and the gummed
red poster Par Avion'' which you OBJ
tain a t any sub-post office and without
which your air letter will risk travel
ing by train in the ordinary mail
service. SO, for Prague. ii costs You
S cents plus cents for the air. plus
the ordinary cents of the interna-
tional postal rates, which adds up a
| total of 13 cents for Paris Prague.
The little red paster BY Avion' is
practically necessary for the air. in
various languages of mailing coun-
tries as far as Asia. even where
proper aerial postage stamps exist and
are legally sufficient without the red
paster. The service Is new: and
the red paster given out gratis as
mere convenience. is better recog
| nized by hurried postal employees than
any novel and fancy stamp,
For Warsaw, YOU put on your
cents ordinary. plus 3 cents air tax.
plus cents extra air tax, total 16
cents for Warsaw.
For Vienna. count cents and add
|
grade. cents; for Bucharest. 10 cents
and for Brussels. Amsterdam. Ham
burg, Copenhagen. and. in fact. all
Germany. Denmark, Norway and
Sweden, call 1t cents air tax plus 2
cents extra air tax plus the cents
| ordinary postage-total Is cents.
The absurd 2 cents extra air tax"
which must enter into all calcula tions
is French device for extra French
looking ahead to important totals as
| mail by air becomes more and more
universal. Most other countries of
Europe follow with such extra extra
for their own benefit, added to the in
ternational extra. In truth. 1t is mere
bookkeeping. although when you go to
mail an air letter in Paris, the multi
plication of stamps and red paster
| seems needlessly complicated.
For Casa blanca-Or Cvia Fez). or
from Toulouse to Fez, or from Tou-
| louise to Casablanca (by Tangiers and
RabaO or from Toulouse to Oran. all
being different lines. you just stick 3
| cents thalf france on to your ordi-
! nary cents letter. without any inter-
national extra extra.
Morocco counts in the French Co
| lonial postal service. which counts the
same as the interior of France.
\ 81, your dlT 1etIer TO AJaCC1O, In
Corsica, flies over the Mediterranean
| from Antibos on the Riviera for
trifle over l cent air tax in addition
to the 2-cent stamp of the French in.
terror. Marseilles-P -Perpignan (expen-
! sive and important commercial air
line) takes your letter for a total of Z
cents in all.
| And for the grand air jump of
France-Dakar two changesl, you pay
francs air tax in addition to your
80 centimes French stamp. 1t makes
a total, at present rate of exchange,
of II cents or IL cents from Paris to
the jumping-off spot of West Africa
/ sticking out into the Atlantic nearest
to the American Continent.
Dakar Will be the French terminus
of the French air line to the nearest
point of South America. At present,
it is great and rich West Africa n
port-you understand, Central Africa
Equatorial Africa, Schoelboys at this
moment in our own American cities
will grow up to do big business with
Dakar.
Today, your air letter gets to Dakar
in from 4 to 5 days from Paris, when
by rail and boat. by ordinary mali
service. II would require up to is days.
Tomorrow, the total S,0Ss miles of