After an uninterrupted sojourn of years in remote Kansu and Ninghsia, Bishop Hubert Otto, of the Schuet Congregation, ascended in an aeroplane for the first time in his life and in the brief space of 2% hours egollated the distance of some 400 English miles between Kweihua, Suiyuan, and Ninghsia city, a distance which on previous journeys it has token him more or less fifteen days to cover, Bishop Otto, born in the middle of the 19th century, Is 87 years of age. His last trip by modern means of Tocornotion was made in 1876 when he. travelled by railway from his native Brussels to embark at Marseilles for Chinat connecting Shanghai and Peking was still a generation in the future. Since secing these cities on his way to the Northwest in 1870, Bishop Otto has never revisited them. If he did 50, the contrast ought to be thrilling, Despite his advanced age, this venerable Catholic prelate continues converts, He declared that the trip by air had caused him no fatigue.
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