Douglas Craft For Service Chungking to Hongkong Chungking, May 3.
A new Douglas air-liner will shortly supplement the China National Aviation Corporation's machines on the Chungking-Hongkong and Chungking-Hankow routes.
The plane is at present being assembled in Hongkong, and is expected to make its maiden flight in about ten days' time.
There will be no alteration of the present time-table. THe new machine will fly on either route as the demand arises.
It will be the third air-liner of this type to operate on China's internal am. when a motor lorry, driven by a Chinese chauffeur in the employ of the naval contractor, stopped at the barrier at the middle of the Garden Bridge. The lorry contained British naval stores, which were being taken from a godown in the Hongkew: district to the French Bund, where they were to be placed on a British' ship and taken down io Hongkong. Seated beside the driver was a British naval rating while the motor lorry—one of two which make frequent journeys to snd fro across the Garden, Bridge—flew a small Union Jack.
A Japanese gendarme mounted the step on the lorry and after examining the pass issued to the Chinese driver by the Japanese naval authorities, promptly confiscated it and told the driver to return to Hongkew, The naval rating, however, after expostulating with the gendarme, instructed the driver to proceed down to the gate of the British Consulate, where two men of the Seaforth Highlanders were stationed on sentry duty.
The Japanese "gendarme remained in the lorry as it drove down the bridge and as it stopped in front of the sentries called the Japanese naval sentries down from the bridge, at the same timesreiterating his "order" that the lorry return to Hongkew.
After a short discussion, the sergeant in charge of the Seaforth Highlanders party, on duty at the Consulate told the driver of the lorry io proceed on to his destination, without his pass, which the gendarme continued to retain,
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