English Translation

59-1 GEOPRESS N03+2 (40/81) December 1y40 OF AIR TRANSPORT IN EURCPA. The map of European air traffic in winter l94o/4l is a reflection of the political-military situation. The war scenes in Western Europe are unaffected by civil air traffic as well as (since the Italian-Greek war) the eastern Mediterranean. England, almost completely isolated from the continent, now has only one airline that runs from an unknown West English airport to Lisbon. German aircraft fly today from Oslo to Rome and from Moscow to Lisbon on all trans-European routes. In the south-east of the continent, German air transport, secundated by Hungarian aviation, covers the capitals of all countries in closer relations with the axis. In Northern Europe, the German airlines are complemented by the Swedish, Finnish and Danish routes.- The main sphere of Italian air transport is the southwest of Eurpas with the western Mediterranean basin. Thanks to the Zurich-Munich line, Switzerland now also has a connection to the European flight network.- Brankreich's air transport network is now limited to southern France and to the connection with Corsica and North Africa. The local air connections are particularly important in Spain, which has been suffering from transport difficulties since the civil war, as well as in the large-scale Soviet Union. The latter is connected to North, Central and South-East Europe by the lines leading from Moscow to Stockholm, Berlin and Sofia. In addition to the other continents, Europe now has only a few routes left, which are operated by an American airline. New York is currently the most important intercontinental connection of our continent; this is also the result of the fact that Lisbon. has become the hub of German, Italian, Spanish and British access lines. To South America, the Rome-Sevilla-Buenos-Aires line is the connection. To Africa, the connection through the French line Marseille-Alger with its extensions extends only to the north of the black continent. Even the lines from Rome to Tripoli and Addis-Ababa cover only the Italian colonial empire. Asia is only connected by the Soviet air routes from Moscow to North and Central Asia. On the other hand, Europe no longer has a route to India, Australia and the Far East. Explanation of sign: Routes: 1 = German; 2= Italian; 3= French; 4= British; 5= Swedish; 6= Danish; 7= Swiss; 8= Finnish; 9= Hungarian, 10= Spanish; il= Soviet; l2= American. (GEOPRESS.) G E O P R E S S No. 343(4082) December 1940 THE CAMP OF THE AEGYPTIC-LIBYSE GRENZE. Sign explanationUng: T white area) = Egypt (under British military control). 2 black area)= Libya (Italian possession). 3 (screwed area) (= Mediterranean. 4 = the Italian front on 7 December l940, before the British offensive. 5 = direction of the British attack. (GEOPRESS.)