§ Sir H. BRITTAINasked the Secretary of Slate for Air whether he can give the House the mileage travelled by air and the approximate amount of time saved by this means of transport in the recent visit of inspection carried out by himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies?
§ Sir S. HOAREThe total distance travelled by air by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Colonies and myself in the course of our recent tour of inspection in the Middle East was approximately 3, 500 miles. I am unable to give any figure for the amount of time saved, but our itinerary included localities almost inaccessible to all but the most primitive forms of ground transport, and to have visited these localities by any other means than the air would have entailed an absence from England of months, not weeks.