Land of Greater Shanghai issued 3 notification requiring Chinese holders of title deeds to acd over those documents to the Bureau in exchange: for ud ownership certificates. The Or-missioner of Land has now court-sessly. informed the "North-Chisa Daily News" that this notification referred.goly to title deeds registered in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in. Shanghai fand it had no. reference at all to title deeds registered in foreign Consulates. This statement considerable importance, for the notification itself was susceptible of misunderstanding, a3 tht Chinese words used for "title deeds" have hitherto been taken include Consular title deeds. sstalemert of the Commissioner of Lard removes misapprehension on' this point, The Air Mail Accident Deepest sympathy will be extend-
Hongkong was a little over hours and he made a couple of stops in order to demonstrate his machine, the Avro-Avian, at Amoy and Foochow. He undertook the Aight with very ttle preparation merely plotting his course, filling up the petrol tank and hopping off This does rot sound such an elaborate procedure and it will sound less so when aviati Light aeroplane comes into his own.
utaily, Flying-Officer Harvey ed to the relatives of the three] jg people killed in the' air mail acand flies upside down snd does al: and dies Lungwjha yesterday. the "stunt" on the acrobatic This sympathy will also be -extended to the China National Aviation Corporation, the operators China Airways, who have been. operating one of the safest and most outstanding it services in the world Since its inauguration over 350,000 miles between Sharghai and Hankow were flown with. out a single accident until yosterday morsing when the regular mail plane on taking off collided with junk resulting in the complet wreck of the machine acd the death of three people inside. Such accidents are to be regretted for they tend to undermine public confidence, but despite this unfortunate Oceurrénce the China Airways! safety figure still stands exceedingly high comparing favourably with air lines in Europe ard America. Even yesterday's disa ter did not interfere with the mail service for as soon as possible another machine of the same type was speeding its way to Navking and Hankow carrying the mails.
The cause of the accident has not been ascertained but it is hoped that ocexrrence will cot serve to rob the sir line of the support it deservedly needs in its difficult task of developing modern air communications in China, "See You in Shanghai"
Flying Officer A. V. Harvey may not have said "See you in Shanghat to-night" when he hopped off from Hongkong to Shanghei in his light aeroplane on Wedresday but he gramme in his light plane, Which disprove all the doubts that men of 200 tks. can never fly & light plane,
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