Canton, Nov. 13, Canton has gone aviation mad. Lack of funds is all that has been retarding progress, for numerous commercial routes "have been laid out, and perhaps' a hundred young. men have been undergoing an intensive course of training at the military airport on the island of Taishatau, Most of the experienced pilots are foreign-trained, and the encouragement they have given to. the development of the art of flying. has been the most valuable stimulus of all, Interest in the development of ation in the south has not been confined to the military officials, far Ma Chao-chun, Commis of the Bureau of Public Construction, has been up in the air several times, and other civil oticers of the government too numerous to mention have been passengers on short trips and have shown great enthusiasm for this most modern form of travel. Both at regular sessions of the Provincial Council and the Branch Political Council bills have been presented, the schemes of this and that ambitious politician who has visualized the glory that is to be China's when her communities have been brought close tog-ther by modern transportation, facilities, So it is that air Youtes have been mapped, and spots desi nated us landing-fields. All on Paper, but as soon as money is available these schemes will be put Into practice, To awaken even more interest in aviation, the head of the flying corps, Gen. Chang Huei-chang has started out in the newly-purchased Ryan aeroplane on a tour of China. No sooner did ho take off than the news came that next month another machine is to be sent on a trip to northern cities, but, instead of going over land, this machine, a hydroplane, will skirt the coast as far as Shanghai. From there the Yangtze will be followed up to Nanking, and thence onward Hankow, To Map the Country
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