The Archive · 1931

NANKING-PEKING AIR SERVICE First Plane Leaves Capital Carrying Mail

Nanking, Apr 15.

The frat direct air Mail service Between Nanking and Peking was Snaugurated this morning, The aeroplane Tainan left. Naning at El for Peking. It carried Knother plane from "Peking for passengers, only mail matter, Nanking was due to arrive here: at Dotclock this afternoon, Up til 3 Sdloek, however, this machine had 'The air mail postage rates be-Aween Nanking and Peking, are oughly 18 cents for an ordinary' Hetier and 75 cents for a daily news-Paper of average size—Reuter. Peking, Apr. 15.

Heavy rain, the first real fall this year in this'part of China, while Felleving the threatened drought, as caused an inauspicious start for the Nanking-Peking air plane

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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