Tt was during his last exhibition at San Fransiseo that Abbott was, interviewed bya representative of, Dr. Sun Yat-sen who urged him to go to Canton for the purpose of intructing the Chinese in the art of flying and in the building and reconstructing of aeroplanes. Abbott agreed and before coming to Shanghai in 1922 completed some outstanding work for Dr. Sun in America. He worked in' an ad-
From that fateful day to April this year, the forlorn looking plane, almost a shell of its former self lay Tusting in a godown. When Bir. Abbott bought the ruins for $2000, cath from. its owner, Mr. Roe, Manager of the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi-Cab Company, all but Abbott and a few of his. faithful supporters declared in effect that Abbott had. been sold a pap and that nothing short of a miracle cetid make the machine fly agai Transformed in Three Weeks.
Abbott set to work, The engi was the only part of the machine that had not suffered in the crash three years ago. Within, three weeks, the plane had undergone 4 complete transformation. Nobody who had seen the crumpled and rot~
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