HC Deb 18 December 1935 vol 307 c1765W
Sir R. GLYN

asked the Postmaster-General whether mail matter for Cyprus is now conveyed by an Italian ship; and whether there is any alternative route for the delivery of mails in this colony, utilising air services, via Palestine?

Major TRYON

The mails leaving London on Tuesdays are conveyed from Brindisi to Cyprus by an Italian ship. Those leaving London on Thursday evening are conveyed from Marseilles by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamships to Port Said for onward transmission by steamships of the Khedivial Mail Line. Air correspondence for Cyprus specially addressed "By Air to Alexandria" and prepaid at the rate for Lgypt, viz.: 3d. the half-ounce, would be conveyed by Imperial Airways service to Alexandria for onward transmission by steamships of the Khedivial Mail Line.