21,000,000 to be Expended Tokyo, Aug. 19.
A plan to spend Y. 21,000,000 during the next five years on aerial routes within the Empire has been formulated by the Aviation Bureats attached to the Department of Communications.
Two routes are at present proposed, one between Tokyo and Mukden, vid Hakone, Osaka, Okayama, Hamada, Taiko, and and the other between Etorofu in the Kurile Islands and Kagoshima, vid, Kasumigaura and imoto.' During the first year it fas rcspeosd to open the tices bet tween Tokyo and Hamada, calling for an initial expenditure of Y. 6,000,000, which will be used for maintenance, observatories, aving tion grounds, and bounties to manu facturers and air-transport com: plinies—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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