Slow Journey Owing to Fog: Ship "As Steady as a Church"
Frost Our Owe Nanking, Oct. 24, China is becoming increasingly air~ minded. There are now passenger and mail airlines which connect Shanghai and Peiping, Shanghai and. Canton, Shanghai and Sian and Chengtu, and Peiping and Canton. The miles flown on the airlines in operation in 1934 were 1,900,000. A line has been projected from Lanchow In Shensi to. Tehukuchak on the Russian border, a total distance from Shanghai of 2435 miles.
'There are two alt lines between Shanghai and Nanking: the China National Aviation Company, which chiefly uses American pilots and 'American planes, Loenings, Stinson, and Douglas: the Burasla' Aviation Company uses Junkers, flown by: German pilots. The distance from Shanghai to Nanking by train is under 200 miles. By air it is 162 miles. The Douglas planes make the trip in'an hour; the Junkers take about tone hour and a quarter, The Douglas plane was not in use the day T flew to and T purchased a ticket on the Eurasia line. The fare is $25.
For two days it had been raining. When T-awoke at 445 am, It was still dark and cloudy, but the raia had ceased. I" breakfasted on a Junch that had been prepared the evening before. I took a taxi at 545 O'clock. We drove through the quiet streets, 30 different in the early morning from their usual diurnal contusion and congestion. The sun was topping the eastern clouds. There was no wind. We drove into the Chinese city with its croaked narrow streets, past the Hangchow Road, The Lunghua Pagoda stood erect and graceful on our right: on our left was a winding, picturesque canal: both creations of the ancient days of China before man had begun to fly.
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