We may express the hope that the arrival of the Japanese flying-boat Naniwa yesterday will mean the real beginning of an aerial service for Shanghai. Not only was the trip uneventful, but as re-ards safety one important eleme: st should he roted—that at no time during the fight from Japan was the aeroplane out of sight of shi ping. There is no reason to suppose that mors shipping traffic than. usual way passing between here and Jspan yeatefday, so it may: he taken for granted that-in the event of anything compelling aeroplanes of the service to come down to water, ie would be on time until assistance coming. Unfortunately when anybody la enterprising. enough to inaugurate such a service as this, once gives rise to a protest from some people who hardly count all but who frequently succeed in making trouble, and in this instance they are the Sixth District Kuomintang Branch. They hav? set up the usual wail about hating only been left with the air that they could call their own previously, and how they: ask us to believe that that going ta be taken from them through this particular servi mizht be just as well to remind these people that they have only to start their own air service, and they will have all the reciprocity. from other that they can wish evidently the favourite child and not come back, and was bought Captain Snagge, to be brought up have
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