The advantages of the hydroglider as a means of river transport in China have just been demonstrated by a new type of machine, constructed by the Dumont—Galvin Company at Lyons and brought here by Messrs. Chapeaux Freres, of Shanghai. The vessel, recently imported in section, was fitted together at Shanghai, and conveyed to Hangchow by rail, the trial taking place on the Chin Tang River, between Hangchow and Wuchowfu. The glider is specially constructed for negotiation of rapids, several of which have to be encountered on the stretch of water chosen for the trial, and a telegram has been received stating that experiment has proved entirely successful. The glider, with a number of prominent foreign and Chinese officials on board, covered the distance, some 300 kilometres, in six hours. The average time taken by Chinese abaft, which have to be laboriously hauled over the rapids, is four and a half days.
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