The Archive · 1928

Other Purposes Than Defence

The Great Wall undoubtedly serv-other purposes. Sir George Staunton, the Secretary of Lord Macartney's Mission to China, who in 1790 saw the Wall at Kupeikou, northwest of Peking, interestingly observed that the Great Wali Masor Abo Ko, who two or three years ago flew from Tokyo to England in the "Asahi's" Breguette aeroplane with another Mee Kawachi, by way of Siberia, has resigned the post of fying inspector in the Army and has joined the newly established Nippon Koles Yuso Kabushi Kaisha, or Japan Air Transport Ca. Ltd., as traffic manager. He is leaving Tokyo for Europe by the Siberian route to buy aeroplanes for the company,

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