The Archive · 1931

Japan Maps Route for Airman

The Aviation Bureau has now selected a route by which it is Sug gested the Australian airman, Mr. FW. Chichester, should #y from Manila to Japan.

Br, Chichester is engaged on a ight from Australia to England, but has been delayed in Manila owing to the fact that the Japanese Government have, for military rea~ sons, refused him permission use the landing fields specified in his original itinerary. The Japanese authorities permitted the use of other fields but these, in Chichester's opinion, were not. sui his purpose.

The route chosen by the Aviation Bureau to-day includes Karenko and Tamsui, Formosa, then. over the mainland of China to Moppo, Korea, from Moppo to Kagoshima, southern Kyushu, and Kasumigaura—Reater,

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