Any ian whose time is worth ten dollars a day will scarcely hesitate to fly to Szechuen. With us. it was hot so much a monetary consideration the necessity of iting numerous Widely scattered appointments and necessary business Into a very limited Regment of the calendar that, forced Ug to the al. Our engagements were vital and to have the necessary time Chungking and Chengtu we engaged passage on the erpress plane.
The Hankow airport Is well away from the eily beyond the Race Course, a twenty minnies" motor ride fron the old British Bund. We were ther" at 1030 am. when the big Douglas twin-motor monoplane swept over the city and made a quiet graceful laud~ ing. "The ofliciis received us courteously, welgied us and the hand bags fon. the tiny "bathroom" scales, and had ug fill-in the inevitable table of information covering every" personal item from sex to date of passport vise, We were allowed 15 kilo: Rrammes of baggage which is approximately 33 Ib. There were no and fifteen minutes later crossed low above me surprisingly expansive and substantial city of Ichang and dropped onto the cir' field. before a. throw of blue coated coolies and uniforme: soldiers, all of whom appeared to as interested in our landing as though it had never been seen before.
'The Ichang air port has not bec. developed, but the ground is level and spacious enough. It is to northwest of the elly, not very far from the Norwegian' Mission. We took on a small supplementary supply rer, Seta as See dened of eae
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