'There is much talk of having airfields in' Tungchow © and. Jukao, Large tracts have been selected for. the purpose and people are wonder ing how soon an acvoplane will stop fg, take on and put off passengers For mail purposes it will be a big improvement, especially for Jukao, which gets its mails through "Tung: chow and considerable delay often Pi caused because of the low water the canal, between Kiangyin and north of the Recently, a forty-launch plying giver was struck by one of the large Yangtze river-poate, About. 10 Pasiengeis bound for north of the iver were on. the vessel. The ferry-boat went down at once and fall but one were drowned. For a Jong time it had been rumoured that the ferry was not sate; It has been accidents "before, but had. been yepaixed and put on this new ser~ vice. The ferry-boat contained foveral students returning home for the holidays,
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