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...Karachi is a seaport on the Arabian Sea. It is the terminus of the London-India air mail and many industries are sprouting there...
Recently United Eastern Agencies, Ltd. acquired the managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...
Battles, riots and bloodshed broke through the tense surface of Indian affairs last week to show the world what depths the non-violent campaign of St. Gandhi for Indian independence is stirring (TIME, Jan. 6). At Karachi, busy modern seaport on the Arabian Sea, a mob of 10,000, yelling, waving flags, throwing stones, swept down on the courthouse where six non-violent followers of Mahatma Gandhi were on trial for violating the British salt laws. British police rifles fired volleys point-blank into the crowd before the yelling, rushing wave of rioters dispersed. One native was killed, 33 were...
...Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles and home to Paris. On his recent flight home from Tsitsihar with Bellonte, Costes went by way of French Indo-China and broke his own record from Hanoi to Paris (4 days, 18 hours) by seven hours. He is now associated with Louis-Charles Breguet, designer...
...long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished Englishmen, troubled by the spending of $10,000,000 on the ships and their accessories, were...