Evening star., 1928-01-29
.SOT1TH AMERICAN FLYING
CREDITED TO EUROPEANS
U. S. Seen as Lagging Far Behind
Germans and French i'm Aviation
Development of Latin Countries.

which operates from a point near Lima.
the Peruvian capital, over the moun-
tains northward and eastward down into
the low valley of the Amazon as far
as the famous port of IquitoS, which is
the head of navigation for ocean steam
ers coming several thousand miles west
ward up the Amazon from the Atlantic
Ocean.
invading Peru.
Even in Peru however. European air
energy is on the rise. The inspector
general Of the Peruvian army is an ex-
officer of the German army. 1t is re-
ported TO Washington that through his
influence there will presently be two
new air services in Peru operating under
German management and using Ger
man planes.
In Bolivia, to the west and TO the
south of Peru. the whole air service
S.,uation is in the hands of German
organization called the Lloyd Aereo
Boliviano. This company runs. tor IN
stance, a service from Cochabamba to
Santa Cruz. which does by air i'll two
/ hours and 80 minutes trip which pre-
! viouSly was done on the back OF mule
/ in Is days The grip Of German ava
| ton science on Bolivia is legitimate
and complete.
In Chile il is reported that there has
! been an air service concession 10 LOUIS
I TeStart. who is said TO be Chilean
citizen of French antecedentS: but there
are no reports OF any air service de-
/ velopmentS in Chile through any efforts
/ from the United States. We have sold
some planes to Chile, but it is mani
fest that the nationality Of the air serv-
ices operated will ultimately determine
the nationality of the airplaneS bought
Turning then from the west coast OF
South America TO the east coast, We
find our situation even worse. The air
service actualities and prospects of Ar
gentina, Uruguay and Brazil are abso-
lutely dominated by German and
French endeavor
All existing air services in those three
countries are German; and now. in this
year 1928. they will be supplemented
by the two most spectacular commercial
aviation achievements that have ever
taken place in the Western Hemisphere:
and one of these Will be German and
the other French.
Germans Plan Service.
A German company will begin to run
a mail and passenger service by Yep
pelins from Seville. in Spain, TO BuenoS
Aires. in Argentina.
A French company-the Compagnie
Generate Aeropostale-which already
operates 1850 miles of air services from
France through Spain and through
Morocco TO Senegal, on the west coast
Of Africa-will extend itself from Sene-
gal across the Southern Atlantic 10
Brazil and thence 10 Uruguay and
Argentina
The trip across the South Atlantic
will be made by seaplanes except for
| the central hop between the Cape Verde
Islands, of Africa. and the Island of
Fernando do Noronha, of Brazil. which
will be made by small fast semi-mili-
| tary ships furnished from the stocks of
the French government
The company announces that for its
new air service to South America IL
will receive from the French govern
ment an annual subsidy exceeding one
million five hundred thousand dollars
II also announces that ii already has
some thirty planes ready for use in
South America and has already bought
land for hangers and repair shops al
some twelve South American ports.
The time needed for the carrying OF
mails from France TO Argentina will
be cut at once from l8 days TO seven
and half, and ultimately 10 four and
half
Ahe DiiA III TIE FIeHcH parliament ioT
sub5idiizing this service vas passed lasl
year.
The sum OF the whole matter is that
the Germans and the French have
got us left on the ground in the Latin
American air and that the bill which
would authorize Our Postmaster General
TO get started toward making air service
contracts with Latin American govern
ments is still in our Congress.