Tokyo, July 27, Four regular air routes, with a total Jength of 2000 kilometres, will be inaugurated on October 1, the Ministry of Communications announced to-day. The new. lines will be:—Tokyo-'Nagano-Niigata, on the Japan Sea coast, 380 kilometres, two hou (Osaka-Toyama-Nagano, Central Is pan, $00 kins, three hours; Osaks /Tottori-Matsue, Japan Sea coast, 350) kins, 1 hr. 50 min.; Osaka-Tokushima-Kohehl, Shikoku Island, 350. kins, The, 50 min, 'A line linking Osaka with Seishin, 'North 'Korea, will be opened in the next fiscal year, simultaneously' with the construction of an airfield in 'Yonako, on the Japan Sea, and of a number' of wireless statlons—Domel.
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