The latest development in the air communications of China reflects the greatest credit on the organization of the Eurasia Company and the skill of its young pilots. The inauguratory flight from Peiping to Hongkong, with its connecting service from Shanghai to Hankow was carried out without a hitch, The smoothness of the arrangements can be gauged from the ease with which it was effected in a last-minute variation in the programme whereby the Shanghai plane made the connection at Hankow instead of at Chengchow. The achievements of the Eurasia pilots in China have in some degree received less attention than they have deserved, partly because the appearance of that admirable service in the China field came at a time when the pioneering activities of the China National Aviation Corporation had so well accustomed the public to air transport. It is all the more fitting, therefore, that special congratulations should be tendered to the participants this Peiping-Hongkong enterprise which brings the North of China into direct "air contact, not only with Canton but, through Hongkong, with the world's main routes to Europe, America and Australia. The names of Leiding, Sasse and Harold Herzog will be permanently associated with a workmanlike and courageous advance in oriental aviation,
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