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Show IS PLANNING AERIAL ROUTE TO TIMBUCTOO French Government Expects to D&-1? D&-1? velop Sahara Holdings When War Is Over. By International News Service. PARIS, April 20 (by mail). It now takes four months to go from Paris to Tlmbuctoo. After the war the trip will be made In four days. One of the first aerial routes which the French will establish es-tablish after the war will be the one to Timbuc-too. The trip to Timbuctoo was not one of the main lines of tourist travel before the war. It will not be a popular roule after the war. But Franco is bent upon developing her great Sahara holdings, and the air line to Timbuctoo will be the first of other air lines to be established to oases In the desert. By traveling via the air route salesmen sales-men engaged in the salt, gold, wax or ivory lines will thus save four months' food, an item of their expense areounts which French commercial houses will be delighted to dispense with. Some of the air routes to France's colonial possessions will carry mail only. Those that travel deep into the desert will be armed with machine guns in case of adventure with unfriendly tribes. Regular Reg-ular routes have been planned for Algeria. Al-geria. Morocco, Tunis, to the French Congo Con-go in equatorial Africa, and by stapes to the Somali coast, Madagascar and the Mayolto and Comoso Islands in French East Africa, Aerial connect ions also will be made with the following districts in French West Africa: Senegal. Mauritania Upper Up-per Senegal River, Niger Military" Territory, Ter-ritory, French Guinea, the Ivorv" Coast and Dahomey. In addition, the six French colonies in French Indo-Chlna will be linked up by regular aeroplane mail and passenger service. |