from Lunghwa Shanghai, Aug. 14.
While the China National Aviation Corporation will maintain, their reular air and passenger services, the Eurasia Aviation Corporation isnot ooking any. passengers to or from Shanghai. Later in. the afternoon, Col. Ling, general manager of the GN.AC, announced that in addition to regular services, two special alr tips will be made between Nanking and Shanghat a day, thus facilitating {the communications' between Shang-hal and the capital.
in view of the hostilities in Chapel, the Eurasia Aviation Corporation evacuated their two aeroplanes} from Lunghwa, The ships flew to Nanking one after another at 4 pin. Their air services to Chengtu and) Kunming will run from Nanking instead of Shanghai for the time being, while the Hongkong-Peiping ser-
A trim little red cabin monoplane hovered over "the Race Course on August 13, came down for Janding, and then turned turtle on the Polo Ground. Huge crowds lined the Bubbling Well Road and speculate fed on the identity of the machine, while two fre engines and an ambbulance "hhurtied to the scene. The plane was righted, and the American pilot and his mechanic emerged. The pilot was Mr. L. A. Lewis, Far East ern manager of United Aircraft Exports Corporation, the mechanic a Mr. R. D. Fedoseyett.
Neither was hurt in the crash, although they spent an anxious two minutes before the machine was righted by the Fire Brigade able them to get out; anxious, because petrol was flowing out of the tank, and there was danger of the machine suddenly catching fre.
Interviewed by the "North-China Daily News" shortly after he got out of the machine, Mr. Lewis accounted for his presence on the Race Course with the terse phrase "Engine trouble." A smile played around the corner of his mouth as he said this, and he later admitted that rumours! that the aerodrome would be bombed have reached his ofice in suicient numbers to be regarded seriously, and that he has arranged for the plane to be dismantled. His me-elianic started to remove the wing: shortly after 330 pam.
Mr, Lewis said that he left the Lunghwa Aerodrome at about 2.15 pin. "landed" at the Race Course about fifteen minutes later. A sudden gust of wind, according to observers, lifted one wing, so that the plane came down on one wheel. The tyre burst with the unaceustomed pressure, a wing tip ground, and the over on to its back.
"A preliminary examination of the damage showed the propeller to be shattered and parts of it to be in splinters; a crumpled under-carriage and damage to the streamlining of the wheel carriage; a slightly bent tail and wing: anda certain amount of other small damage. Mr. Lewis said that the machine, which is a two-seater, high wing cabin plane, was) not. Insured.
Mr. Lewis' "forced landing" on the Race Course is almost identical with Jan incident that occurred on February 46, 1992, during the Sino-Japanese hostilities, when another "American pilot, a Mr. P. R. Derby, flew a biplane down' from Nanking and landed on the Race Course for safety. Mr. Lewis, however, had not received permission to land. on the Race Course. vice is curtailed, planes landing, at Hankow instead of stations further north.
"The two special Shanghai-Nanking air trips by the CNAC. is to be Inaugurated' to-day, one leaving in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
The Central Government embargo Jon wheat flour, pig iron and mixtures containing wheat has now included lee. According to the order, the export to Manchuria, including Dairen, is also provisionally prohibited.
Meanwhile, a further increase of about four to five per cent. in the price of Chinese and Saigon rice hi been "recorded. This Increase is at~
{tributed to the temporary decrease in the number of boats arriving in Shanghai from the interior owing' {to the recent typhoon and also to the large demand resulting from the unsettled situation locally.
The Chinese Native Goods Promotion Committee, -which has been Jadvocating armed resistance against Japan, together with several other business groups have asked all provisions merchants to prevent per Jsons from providing the "enemy"
etisis. with foodsiufts during "the present
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