Chungking, Dec. 3.
Communication facilities between Chungking and Moscow have been improved with the inauguration of a through air-mail and passenger service between the two capitals.
The Ministry of Communication's air liner Chungking will take off today for Hami in Sinkiang, where a "plane of the Sino-Soviet Aviation Company will take over and continue the flight to Alamutu. From then on, passengers and mail will be carried to Moscow by a Soviet "plane.
The entire trip from Chungking to Moscow will take only four days.
Four times a month a Soviet airliner will meet the plane from Chungking at Hami and continue the flight to Moscow.
Although the Chungking-Hami and the Alamutu-Moscow lines have been operating separately for some time, today's flight will be the first direct service between Chungking and Moscow.
\At the same time, a direct Moscow: Chungking telephone service has been made possible by the establishment of improved wireless communications.
The telephone reception is said to have been perfect last Sunday, when Soviet pressmen here conversed with their Moscow office—Reuter.
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