Discussions are going on in Nanking, we learn from the vernacular press, with a view to terminating the agreement entered into by the National Aviation Corporation with the American frm, Avition Expleration, Ltd.
According to reports, the agreement entered into provides 'Corporation shall be respon: the mails and passengers, while the American company shall supply the pilots and planes; the Corporation to pay G.$1.50 to the American firm for each mile flown by the Corporation's planes.' Calculated upon this basis, it is said, the National Aviation Corporation is bound to pay the American firm more than G$1,500 for each fight to Hankow or vice versa. Up to the present, however, the maximum receipts of the Corporation have not exceeded' $1,200 Mexican currency daily, means that the Corporation is being operated at a very heavy loss amounting to approximately $2,000 daily.
This being the case, the Minister of Communications, who is also president of the Corporation, is ce ferring with other Ministers of the Government with a view to cancelling the agreement, it-Service Contracts Nanking, Jan. 18. number of mootings. of the deputies -of the Ministries of Communications and Foreign Afairs fixed for this week to discuss various proposed revisions of the contract, between the China National Aviation Corporation and the China Airways Federal Incorporated in connection with the operation of the Shanghai - Nanking-Kiukiang-Hankow air mail and passenger service. Since the taking over of the Corporation by is munications, it has been officially' stated that revision of the terms of the contract must be made.
According to a Ministerial order, dispatched yesterday by the Ministry -of Communications the Shanghai General Post Office, only. letter mail will be accepted for dispatch on. the Shanghai-Hankow Air, Mall Line.. Tt is stated that in view of the fact that freight charges by bulk for parcels, newspapers and other printed matter are not' specified in the agreement with the American Airways Ca,, it is necess-_ ary temporarily to suspend this freight service until the agreement, has been revised.—Kuo Mir Tue Mayor of Greater Shanghai has appointed one of his subordinaites, and four prominent merchants, to rex the prices of lands to be purchased by the Chinese authorities for the proposed civic centre of Greater Shanghai at the request of farmers living within the proposed area, who complained that the prices fixed recently by the committee appointed by the Mayor are too low.
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