A large and anxious crowd hung around "the "Lunghwa "Aerodrome, Shanghai's civil airport, until a late hour on the morning of Jan, 24, waiting, waiting, waiting (or M. Maree! Doret the French aviater, and his trim and speedy monoplane, to arrive, "On top of the main hangar, a large search-ght slowly revolved, its brilliant beam picking up, first, a neat, red cabin monoplane in front. of the Eurasia hangar, then a Shell" lorry loaded with tins of petrol, MMlekered across the landing-field, "skimmed cross the Whangpoo River, and then played briefly across the faces of 'M. M. Baudez, the French Consul-General, and a) number of oMieials standing in front of the airport's waiting room, But M. Doret did not arrive, One other anxious little crowd, consisting Of one or two French consular oM-dals, Mr. E. M. Allison, Operation Department manager of the China National Aviation Department, Mr. E. A. R. Fowles, president of tho} Royal Air Force Association of Shang hai and in charge of the refuelling, arrangements, and a representative of the "North-China "Herald" were in the radio room of the C.N.A.C., where, hour after hour, a wireless' operator {ried to get in touch with the plane fon a wave-length of 88 metres. the city, a French and a Chinese station were doing the same thing on wave-length of 900 metres; but no reply was forthcoming.
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