The China Clipper brought 1,207 ordinary letters and 197 registered letters which left San Francisco on April 21 and were delivered in Shanghai by the 1.30 pin. round yesterday. Thus all records for quick transmission of mail between America and Shanghai were broken, But for the mud of Soochow the time would have been 24 hours better. That sums up the magnifeence of the achlevement of the Pan-American service in ce-operation with the China National: Aviation Corporation and the Imper!- Airways at Hongkong." Rapidly the aerial conquest of the mall service proceeding. The globe has been girdled and it Is dimeult to foresee imitations on the expedition of correspondence and transportation rendered possible and feasible by the service of aircraft. When a letter can reach Shanghai from San Francisco in nine days, the Pacific seems to be reduced to the dimensions of erring pond and it Is no. longer relevant to regard the folk on the other side of the water as mystical beings shrouded in the mists of a vast distance, Letter-writers will find their obligations increased but their wails will not be allowed' to block the aerial path of progress,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.