by Nanking Nanking, May 18.
To facilitate the improvement of existing commercial air services and the installation of new. air ways, the National Government has decided to purchase 40. new aeroplanes from Great Britain, In ordering the Ministry "f For-Affairs to arrange with the tritish: company concerned far the Purchase, the National Government. specifies that the plasses should be equipped with light machine guns 40 as to eliminate any—possible danger to the passengers" from banditry—Kuo Min,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.