Purchase of Planes Considerable activity has taken place locally in connection with the movement for the organisation of national air defence. The Shanghai Ghamber' of Commerce on Jane 14 Addressed to the various merchants? guilds a cixeulay letter couched in the following terms:—
The propaganda for a national gir defence in the various provinces in North China has resulted in the collection of $30,000 for the purghaso of aeroplanes, but the sum is insufficient for the purchase of even one aeroplane. The Japanese peo ple have bought over fifty. aero. Planes for their country. Does not this put us to shame!
"As it is the custom of Chinese Merchants to hold a spring festival ANTI-JAPANESE,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.