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Show JUL LINES PROVE SUCCESS I OIERfFRilNCE Four Routes in Full Operation NOW, With New Ones. 12 in Number, Planned (Bv International News Serior) PARIS, Aug !. Four aerial line carrying passengers and merchandise arc already In full operation in France and within two or three months this service wdl Include twelve more. Besides Be-sides the Paris-London service, which was Installed several months ago, ihtre is a regular service betwein Lordeaux and Toulouse, one between Nice and Nlmea ami one Joining Erance, Spain and Morocco, with stops, at Barcelona, Alicante and liabat. N EW 1 IM :s OPEN The new lines which are to be opened this summer Includes service , between Malaga, Spain and Rabat. Morocco, one from Barcelona In the, sou tii of Prance, to Bilbao and San-tander; San-tander; one from Paris to Verdun de- ....... -1 . . W r 1 . . V. I . 1 . .. . n. r UiUCU VlllCilJ IUI Lite unn UL IM Alliri- lean visitors to the battlefields: one from Paris to Brussels, and one from Bordeaux to Barcelona Ither lines projected are those between Antlhes In the south of Erance and Tunis; the . Marseilles-Algiers line, a service be-'tween be-'tween Paris and Geneva, and a long International aerial route between Paris, Prague. Warsan and Bucharest. Bucha-rest. For the convenience of Americans Ameri-cans who desire to see the bai lef ler's on the western front there is to be a service having Paris In the morning and going via Chateau-Thierry and BolSSOns to Rhelms The work we have accomplished so far." said M Flan din, undersecretary for aviation, "represents only a small part cd' our program. But Just as' soon as the necessary credits are otod ' you will see a wonderful increase In ; our activities. ur greatest expense; Is in the purchase of landing places, i n account of the Intricacies of1 Prenh law governing the sal" of real estati It Is often necensary to wait a ' year or a ear and i half before the government can acqulre-tltle to a piece 1 of property. iiv 1:1 (.1 l ITTOVd "The regulations governing aerial traffic were drawn up in October, 1 a 1 9 ; by a convention agreed to by the; principal allied powers, but all these pow is have not yc nitifled the con-; ventlon Jn these circumstances the nations between which there is reg-1 'ular aerial traffic have had to make special conv entions France and Eur-! i land, Erance and Switzerland France and Belgium have signed such agree-. ments. ' Since the end of the war aerial traffic has Increased to an enormous extent Between Paris and London the service today comprises nearly a hundred trips a month. In the month of April 13 passengers and about ten tons of merchandise were transported Twenty sacks of mail were carried In 1 the same month. Aerial traffic Is one of the his things of the future. The public is, showing more and more Interest In an aKe when speed Is all important this Is natural " tit |