The Archive · 1937

Another Double Atlantic Air Crossing Made

London, July 30.

Yet another double trans Allantic crossing has been achieved by machines fo Imperial Always snd Pane American Airways, The American Clipper, leaving Botwood, Newfoundland, at 4 o'clock this morning, Shanghai lime, reached, Foynes, Ireland, at 5.50 pin, to-day, Shanghai time, while the air-liner Cambria, ying in the reverse direction,

Shanghai time, was over tet Foyneg at 2 ihe morning. Botwood at 6 pin, and landed at 748 pin. Both fights are to test feasibility of regular trans-Aulantic service.

Earlier this month the Pan-American Clipper III. and the Caledonia completed the return ight without ineident—Reuter. aggressor and declare both to be at. war, our ships that engage in trade and' delivering American goods to the Orient would at once be seized by' either China or Japan or both, as bringing supplies to the enemy.

"American citizens would be seized and imprisoned. Then it is that America must go to the rescue of her people and property and this she must the American navy, and America becomes at once involved in war of China and Japan.

"For this reason—io avoid such possibility—the President must con-Unue his efforts to persuade those in the confiets both' in Spain and the Orient to come to peace on acceptable

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