Manila, Oct. 17
One of the few remaining obstacles to the inauguration of trans-Paelic air-mail_ and passenger service was Femoved to-day, when the Philippine Senate passed' a bill granting twenty-year franchise to the Pan-American Airways, Me., for landing elds, radio facilities "and general air communication with the United [States to the east and China to the west.
Acceptance by the Senate of twenty amendments to the original bill, inserted by the Philippine House of Representatives, completed legislative action on the measure, as the House had previously passed the bill og amended—United Press.
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