To those making a frst Might aver this region it is something of a surprise to discover how consistently the air route follows the main direetion of the twisting Han River which is comparatively "straight east and rest a5 contrasted with the long loops and bends of the Yangtze away to the south. Somewhere north of Shasi the low, level, fertile rive valley is abandoned toa more matt hill country with ils red. sell and dark "tees. Tt was Just twelve oclock when we approached the! mighty Yangtze with its higher banks, There it was, a rather carefully constructed airport high above the' river precariously surrounded by hills. But we did not pause. We swept past Ht up the tortuously winding rive, into the typically hazy almospkere for which Chungking has a bad rep nation. The river was low enough 0 that the planes were using the winter landing on a flat island in the river immediately opposite the upper cond of the ety, instead of the artificial landing so many miles below. Dow: between the high hills on one side and tke city-crowned promontory" on other we swooped and rolled quickly. to our Journey's end before the ma
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