Fully recognizing the great importance of advanced aviation, not only from the economic, but' also from the military point of view, the Tokyo Department of Communications is devoting much at tention to the establishment of international acrodromes and air-routes. The work of inaugurating air routes between Tokyo and Dairen and between Osaka Shanghai already has been taken in hand, the estimated cost being '¥.6,000,000, and now it is proposed to perfect all air equipment, as a three-year enterprise, beginning with the coming fiscal year, of ¥.5,600,000. The latter plan 18 at establishing observatories for aviation purposes at seven places along. the Tokyo-Dairen and Osaka-Shanghai air routes, besides providing international aerodrome: According to. the present. pro gramme, observatories are to" be established at Tokyo, Hakone, Nara, ika, "Fukuoka, Seoul, and Dairen, and radio stations are to be pi vided at Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and, if China's consent is forthcom. ing, at Shanghai,
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