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e SA * G E O P R E S S No. 272 (40/11) Rebruar 1940 THE FLOW COMPOUNDS BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA (FebrUar 194O.). - - dda da Staal t p o boundenx through the following: The southern route ("The Airway to India"), which is by far the most important. Sre is flown through: a.) British Overseas Airways on the England-Aegypt-India-Australia line, with a branch line to Hong Kong. b.) The French airline Air France, whose aircraft operate from Marseille (init connection from England and Paris) to Fran-zoesişch Indochina and Hong Kong, is operated. c.) The Hollaendische Geselischaft K.L.M., whose route starts in Naples and ends in Bandoeng in Lower Laendian India. This line has a connection to Australia through the aircraft of the subsidiary K.N. I.L-M. in Batavia. d.)The Italian Ala Littoria, whose line extends from Rome only to Basra in Iraq. The German Far East route, which was established in l939, had to be stopped following the war. The noerdal route is operated by the Soviet state company Aeroflov and leads from Moscow to Vladivostok - finally via Soviet territory. This line maintains its extension nadh Central and Northern Europe through the Soviet-Swedish route Moscow-Stockholn, e.g. through the Soviet-German line Moscow-Berlin. The Central Asian route was set up only a few weeks ago. YY It branches off from the northern route at Sverdlovsk in the Urals and is also operated by the Aeroflot until Alma Ata in Soviet Central Asia. From here the connection is accomplished by the newly founded Soviet-Chinese air transport company "Hamiata" to Hami in West China.The airline of the Chinese-German company "Eurasia" leads to the current Chinese capital, Tschungking. Signs: Flugli -en: l=British; 2=French; 3=Lower-Laendian; 4=Italian; 5=Soviet; 6=Sovetish-Chinese; 7=Chinese-douch. GEOPRESS.) GEO PR ES S No. 273 (40/12) February_1940 IE SITUATION IN THE PROVINZ KWANGSI (Suedchina) on 2 February 1940. __ apocalyptic explanation: White area = China; punctured area = French Indochina; black F.aeche= occupied by the Japanese on 20.2.l940, after the Chinese counter-offensive. l= Japanese advance against Lungchou(Lungchow) at the end of December l939, which ended with a retreat on Nanning. 2= Japanese front on 20.1.1940. 3= Japanese front on 9.2.1940, before the beginning of the Chinese counter-attack. 4= Mountain pass. 5= Railways. 6= Railway under construction. 7= Location of the Japanese fleet. (GEOPRESS) GE O PR E S S Nr: 274 (40/13) _February_1940 THE FRONT ON THE CAREL NETWORK AFTER SUMMA (11.- 19.I1.1940.). Signs: 1= Finland; 2= Soviet Union; 3= railways; 4= main roads; 5= the front on 11.2.1940, before the beginning of the battle of Summa; 6= front on 19.2. 1940, after the Soviet offensive; 7= direction of attack of the Soviet troops. (GEOPRESS.) 1062 1813