Passenger and Mail Air Service to Peking Colonels F. V. Holt and Tcheng Hung, Adviser and Chief of Military Affairs respectively of the
Poking Government, arrived from Aeroneubicn Department of the Peking on Wednesday. Their mission is to complete arrangements for the establishment of an aerodrome in Shanghai for the air mail and_ passenger service which is to be inaugurated between Shanghai and Peking next summer.
Officials connected with the department state that aerodromes will be established in Shanghai, Nanking, Hsuchowfu, Tsinanfu, Tientsin, and Peking, while there will be landing stages in various other smaller cities. During the first six months, only a mail service will be inaugurated, but {should plans materialize passengers will be carried later on. Vimy machines, capable of carrying some 15 passengers, in addition to mails, will be used.
It is hoped after the establishment of the first main route, to have two other routes, one between Shanghai and Chungking, Szehai to Canton.
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