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...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...
...then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French Guinea, Gambia (British, with the harbor of Bathurst) and Sénégal (with Dakar, the French base on Africa's westernmost shoulder-point). Gabon is about equidistant (2,000 mi.) from Dakar and Cape Town...
What happened in Gabon last week was not too clear. Vichy said British light cruisers from Bathurst shelled Libreville, Gabon's capital, for hours to prepare for a landing by Free French forces under General René de Larminat, Chief of Staff of the French Army in Syria before France fell. The British denied any shelling, but said they had forced the ocean-going French submarine Poncelet to be scuttled off Gabon. Vichy said Libreville's attackers, who landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa...
...Cape Verde Islands were hot, dusty, windy, dirty, and the Lindberghs were worried about the heavy seas which threatened their plane. Bathurst, in Gambia, was pleasant and clean and the English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...
...Germans are the most impatient to get North Atlantic planes into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...