. Airfare of to-day and of the future. d allowing half an hourfor each landing, an aeroplane leaving London ateight on a Monday morning would keep the follow-ing time-table :— London . 8 Monday. Paris . 10 >> Bordeaux . i j> Gibraltar . 8 >> Fez . 9 fj Lagos . Tuesday. Loango . 2 Wednesday Johannesbur g . 8 > > Capetown . 4 Thursday. Total: London-Capetown, 2 days 20 hours. By steamer, via Funchal, the time taken isthree weeks, which gives an advantage of two anda half weeks. Another route to Capetown wouldbe: London-Paris-
. Airfare of to-day and of the future. d allowing half an hourfor each landing, an aeroplane leaving London ateight on a Monday morning would keep the follow-ing time-table :— London . 8 Monday. Paris . 10 >> Bordeaux . i j> Gibraltar . 8 >> Fez . 9 fj Lagos . Tuesday. Loango . 2 Wednesday Johannesbur g . 8 > > Capetown . 4 Thursday. Total: London-Capetown, 2 days 20 hours. By steamer, via Funchal, the time taken isthree weeks, which gives an advantage of two anda half weeks. Another route to Capetown wouldbe: London-Paris-Lyons-Rome-Alexandria-Ankobar-Mombasa - Zanzibar - Bulaway 0 -Johannesburg - Cape-town. The Far East routes would be: London-Petro-grad- Moscow-Samara-Omsk -Tomsk - Irkutsk - Pekin-Tokio, and London-Berlin-Warsaw-Odessa-Astra-khan- Merv-Delhi-Calcutta -Canton - Shanghai-Yoko-hama-Tokio. The Australian route would followthe latter as far as Calcutta, and branch off there,via Singapore-Surabaya-Port Darwin and Adelaideto Melbourne.!. o 06QO06W O o H U 06 < w w H s AIRFARE OF THE FUTURE 167 Finally, we have been introduced to the aeroplaneand the airship in all their numerous spheres ofactivity. The Zeppelin we have discussed at greatlength, the Parseval, the Schutte-Lanz, the triplane,and the Baby monoplane. We have dabbledwith the past, in the early days of aviation. Wehave lingered with the present, and timidly peepedinto the future. We stand now like a swimmer onthe fringe of the great ocean, hesitating to plungeinto a sea of uncertainty, that may hold for us onlythe calmest of pleasures, or on the other hand, themost gruesome of dangers. As I write, the news of a great air battle is tohand. Germans lose 46 machines, British lose28 machines. Intensest fighting between largesquadrons of aeroplanes. It is the writing on thewall—the herald of the gigantic matters that areto come ; when the aerial navies will be maintain-ing peace and goodwill not on, but over the surfaceof
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