Tokyo, Feb. 19.
Appointment of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr as the new British Ambassador to China may result in a revision of British policy in China, the "Asahi" declared to-day. Such a revision of policy, the journal, stated, might serve to "remove whatever misunderstanding there may be between Britain and Japan." After the new envoy assumes his post in China the British Government may be able "correctly to understand the actual conditions in China without being affected by preconceptiors," the editorial concluded.
China air force is now under complete Soviet control, according to the Peiping correspondent of the "Asahi."
Since Jan. 1, the correspondent reported to-day to his paper, Soviet Russia has supplied China with about 120 planes, including 1-15 and 1-16 fighters, SH light bombers and BD3 heavy bombers.
Soviet experts, the report added are now training Chinese pilots, in addition to controlling the assembly of aircraft at factories in Lanchow, Sian, Hankow and Changsha.
China's present strength in the air was placed by the correspondent at about 300 planes, most of which were either flown directly from Russia or assembled in China by Soviet mechanics.—Domei.
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