The Archive · 1935

RAF. PLANES REACH HONGKONG

Hongkong. June 22.

The two new Singapore III fyingoats, of the 205th squadron of the Royal Air Force, which set out from Singapore at dawn on Thursday, arrived here at two o'clock this afternoon. They alighted in the harbour like a pair of huge silver birds and taxied to their moorings near Kaltack.

They will stay in the Colony for two days to enable Air Commodore Smith, commander of the Royal Air Force in the Far East, to carry out an inspection of the RAF. establishment here. Later. the boats will fy to Manila and return to Singapore, via Labuan—Reuter.

Tue National Government has ap-Pointed Mr. Hu Kuang-yung to re~ Peesent China at the sixth annual International Botany Conference which is to open in Holland in September.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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