May 24.
In the name of all the foreign, but especially the British community we offer the heartiest welcome and most sincere congratula ations to Captain Oisy and Sergeant Vesin on their arrival in Shanghai, and would add our earnest hopes that the unhappy. accident which occurred on their landing may not unduly delay them. Though he is not the first to have flown hither from Europe, that honour belonging to an Italian, Lieut. Ferrarin, Captain Oisy's time record far surpasses: anything yet achieved. That he has been blessed with good luck he himself would be the first to admit. But to say that is in no way to detract from the merit of his performance. For the strain of so long x flight and the utter uncertainty as to conditions ahead must have "taxed the aviator's endurance to the utmost. officers had done it in their apprenticeship period, one of them at least in the old sailing ship days, "when sailors were sailors and men were men."
Another priceless tag is: "We have been treated as chatties.'"
The feeling that he was being treated as a chattel must have It ly a very wonderful performance and France may well be proud of Captain d'Oisy.
It is a commonplace to say that future generations will Took back on the machines in which our airmen go aloft to-day with the same wonder as we look Wack en the barque in which
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