English Translation

G E O P R E S S No. 391 (41/46), _June 1941. WORLD AIR TRANSPORT I94l. A survey of the international air traffic situation shows the following picture: In Europe, transcontinental air transport, in a military situation, has been the exclusive domain of Germany and Italy. German aircraft fly from Oslo and Stockholn in the north to Rome and Athens in the south, from Moscow in the east to Lisbon in the west. The central and western Mediterranean is crossed by Italian aircraft. An Italian line connects Ron to Rio de Janeiro and is currently the only direct route between Europe and South America.- France's air network is limited to the routes from Vichy and Marseille to the French possessions in North Africa. England's connection zú: the world's air traffic is accomplished by a line from Southwest England to Lisbon. From Lisbon, un- regular Břitian airboats via the West African Ha- fen Lagos provide the connection with the African and Australasian air network of the British Empire. This is supplemented in Central Africa by Belgian routes, between Indonesia and Australia by Dutch routes.- Eastern Europe and North Asia are transferred from the Soviet Union's air network, which is connected to the other European airlines in Stockholm and Berlin: the Trans-Siberian route Moscow-Vladivostok, which has been flown to date, was joined this year by the Transarctic line Moscow-Aadyr. Since 1 940, there has also been a flight connection between Moscow and the Chinese capital of Chungking, with the line ilma-Ata-Hami operated by a Soviet-Chinese, the Hami-Tschungking section operated by German-Chinese companies.- The ncue Japanese flight mega-strale Tokyo-Bangkok is also opening up the Far East to the world air traffic. The civil aviatics of the New World and the oceans surrounding it are almost entirely ruled by the airlines of the United States. Only the British Dominium Canada has been able to build its own transcontinental air network, which has just received a continuation on the North Atlantic to Europe. Ín South America, an Argentine flight route connects the southern tip of the continent with the US lines. The Atlantic Ocean is crossed by the Clipper airboats between New York and Lisbon following the wind conditions towards west-east via the Bermuda Islands, towards east-west via Bolana in Portuguese Guinea and Port of Spain on Trinidad. The Silent Ocean is bridged by the 'Clippers' on the vast routes from San Francisco to Singapore, Hong Kong and Auckland to New Zealand. A Chinese-American company is concerned about connecting Hong Kong via Chungking with Ran-goon in Burma, while New Zealand is connecting with Sydney and the Australian continent's air transport network through Australian aircraft. Explanation of character: Airlines: l=Anerican; 2=British and Allied (Belgian, Dutch); 3=German and Italian; 4=French; 5=Soviet; 6=Japanese; 7=Argentina. (GEorrEss.)