METEOROLOGY 9I 



some which are proposed are mentioned in the following note: 



Air Routes 



The British Imperial Airways main route from Cairo follows 

 roughly the course of the Nile via Khartoum and Malakal to 

 Kampala and Kisumu on Lake Victoria, thence eastward to 

 Mombasa, along the coast to Dar-es-Salaam, Mozambique, Beira, 

 Lourengo Marques and Durban. Wilson Airways run a branch 

 service from Kisumu to Nairobi, and thence two services, one via 

 Mombasa, Tanga, and Zanzibar to Dar-es-Salaam, the other via 

 Moshi, Dodoma, Mbega, Mpika to Broken Hill, and Lusaka. 

 Another branch service connecting Bulawayo, Salisburyj and 

 Blantyre with Imperial Airways at Beira is run by Rhodesian and 

 Nyasaland Airways. Early in 1937 Imperial Airways discontinued 

 their service from London to the Rand, and opened their flying 

 boat service down the east coast to Durban. Imperial Airways 

 opened a branch service from Khartoum via Fort Lamy to Kano 

 in 1935, which was continued to Lagos in 1936. It was extended 

 along the Guinea Coast to Accra in 1937 by Elders Colonial Air- 

 ways and is to be extended to Takoradi in the Gold Coast. South 

 African Airways, controlled by the Union Government, run ser- 

 vices from the Rand via Kimberley to Windhoek, the Rand to 

 Kisumu, the Rand via Bloemfontein to Port Elizabeth, the Rand 

 to Durban, the Rand to Capetown, Capetown to Durban along 

 the coast, and the Rand to Lourengo Marques. 



The French central African services operated by Air Afrique 

 alternate with the Belgian Sabena services in providing a trans- 

 Saharan crossing, either via Algiers, El Golea, and Aoulef, or 

 Oran and Regan, to Gao, and from thence eastwards to Niamey, 

 Zinder, Fort Lamy, Fort Archambault, and Bangui. Here one 

 route runs westwards via Coquilhatville to Brazzaville. The other 

 runs south-east via Stanleyville and Elisabethville, where it is con- 

 tinued by the Madagascar Government service via Broken Hill to 

 Quelimane and Mozambique on the coast, and thence to Mada- 

 gascar. The west African service, operated by Air France only 

 with flying boats, runs along the coast from Casablanca to Dakar, 

 thereby connecting with the transatlantic service. From Dakar 

 the Aeromaritime service continues the coastal route to Pointe 



