The Archive · 1928

LUFTHANSA ROUTE TO NANKING

Proposed Linking Up with Berlin by Aeroplane Nanking, Sept. 16. the in Nanking negotiating with the Nationalist authorities in connexion. with a proposed Berlin-Irkutsk-Nanking nir route. The Lufthansa representative states that the Bering trip can be made in Test flights have been male be tween Berlin and Irkutsk. A new plane of the Bremen type which was the first airplane to cross the Aulatitie flying-west, is now on its way from Siberia to Nanking. The German authorities are seeking the permission of the Chinese Government for the Junkers plane to cross the northern border and to land in Chinese territory.—Reuter.

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