Tokio, Mar. 18.
Information has been received that Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, K.B.E., the well-known airman who in 1919 successfully accomplished the first long distance flight between Great Britain and Australia, and who has a distinguished war record, is probably arriving in Japan in the first week in May.
Flying in a_ single-engined Vickers ''Amphibian," a flying boat fitted with wheels that enable it to land on the ground as well as on water, Sir Ross Smith will touch Japan on his round the world flight.
It is expected that his route will take him from the Kurile to the Aleutian Islands, in which case, with the exception of his flight across the Atlantic, the aviator Will not have to make an over-sea journey of more than 1,000 miles.
An alternative route across the. Pacific is vid Easter Island in the Southern part of the ocean. This would involve a longer flight but the journey could probably be made under more favourable weather conditions.
A new type of flying boat, of exceedingly smart fish-like appearance, is now afloat and undergoing trials on Lake Kasumigaura. This machine is fitted with a 230 horse power Siddeley "Puma" engine, and is designed especially for eross-channel work.—Rcuter.
Tue Chinese press reports that some 300 coolies who were travelling by a Peking-Mukden train a few nights ago were frozen to death near Shanhaikuan,
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