Shanghai as viewed from the air! reminds one of model towns and be vil seen in shows and exhibitions. There fs something unreal about it. White farm houses look like sugar loaves, the broad Huangpu appears little more than a dirty creek winding its way to the sea, while the creeks and ways look like silver crack: earth's surface. People look ants, motor cats like beetles, and huge linea ike children's toys." One thing that does strike one forcibly is the dirty pall of smoke which overhangs the town: it help: one to realise something of the im-Durities which we breathe in dow: here. The only disadvantage about Mr. Hetling's machine—and for all' the writer knows the defect may be common to all aeroplanes,—is that one cannot enjoy the rarity] of the air at that altitude owing to the smell of oil and petrol emanating from the engine,
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