Tokyo, Oct. 27.
Although civil aviation in Japan Ihas not, hitherto, made much progress, signs are not lacking to show that the authorities are alive to the value of establishing regular aerial services, not only in the Jmain islands but also between Japan Proper and the Asiatic mainland.
The first definite step in thi direction was taken toward—the jond of September, when a mail-ferrying plane made a successful Aight from Osaka to Dairen and Lack, vid Hiroshima and Seoul, thie [being followed a week or two later by an experimental flight from Osaka to. Shanghai vid Fukuoke and Mokpo, two machines out of the three that set out reaching Shanghai without mishap, though only one completed the return flight success fully.
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