$10,000,000 Expenditure on Tai-Kam Island Founded in Air Force 1902
Canton, July 5.
The Canton Air Mission to Europe headed by General Wang Kwang-jul, Commander-in-Chief of the Canton Air Fleet, has shortened its tour abroad and is expected to be back here in the early part of August.
Well-informed circles believe that the Mission is hurrying back owing to the fact that the Canton authorities have decided to embark immediately on a big programme involving expenditure of $10,000,000 to purchase 200 fighting aeroplanes from leading British, American, and German aviation factories—Reuter.
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