AERONAUTICS: French Week

France established three important air routes last week. A passenger line was started between London and Cannes, pearl of the French Riviera. Another was begun between Southampton and Cherbourg, where the English Channel is generally rough. But most important of all, France began air mail service to South America.

More than 7,000 miles lie between Paris and Buenos Aires, a rail and boat journey of three weeks, but letters will soon pass from one to the other in ten days. Planes will carry mail from Paris to Toulouse, to Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, and Dakar on Cape Verde off the coast of Africa....

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