The Archive · 1935

Some Impressions from the Air

Foreed 0 return because of adverse weather conditions along the vast near Foochow, the C.N.A. "good-will" plane arrived back at the Lungwha aerodrome on Sunday shortly after 330 pin. The plans, carrying Shanghai press representatives and bound for Canton on a four-day trip including stops at Wenchow, Foochow, Amoy. and Swatow, took off from here on time at Tam, Plioted by Mr. C. S. Vaughan, veteran pilot with the company, the plane, a Douglas Dolphin kept to Scheduled time until noon when a low cel bility "necessitated a Felurn Wenchow. Radio communications Infant Hurled to Death by Mother 'A woman named Kiang Yuan-sze, aged 30, was token into custody by the Nantao Public Safety Bureau on Sunday on a charge of having killed her two-month old child. Tt was alleged that on Saturday, when her husband Kiang King-kwei was out, the woman, standing Inside an upstairs window of her house off Zee Ka Pang Street, hurled her child to the ground below with the result that the child died that morning. "The woman was said to have been mentally deranged since her eight-year old son was killed in the Shanghai hostilities several years ago and the death of her eldest daughter in the following year. At the Public Safety Bureau, she cried and yelled and her words were incoherent, She was subsequently sent to the Bureau's headquarters for investigations. direct from the plane between Pilot Vaughan, stations en route and Captain CeBll Sellars, fog-bound Canton decided the pilot and. Mr. ai En-Ki, managing director of the CNN.AC. who accompanied the party to return to Shanghai rather than take chances of spending a week or more in Foochow. The company adheres at all times to a policy of safety of Passengers and plane, above all else, weather conditions are more favour-

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