The Archive · 1939

At Funeral of Marshal Wu Pel-Fu

Mr, Wu Chi-chung, in mourning of hia Peiping home for his distinguished Wu, known as the "soldier-poet," 4, He was 67 years of Chungking-Soviet Air Mail Inaugurated Chungking, Dec. 5, Communication fheilities between Chungking and Moscow have been improved with the inauguration of a through -alr-mail and. passenger service between the two capitals.

'The Ministry of Communication' 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 Might 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 ut Hami and continue the flight to Moscow.

Although the Chungking-Homl and the Alamutu-Moscow lines have been operating soparstely for some time, today's flight will be the frst direct service between " Chungking and Moscow.

"At the game time, a direct Moscow-CChunaking 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 ofice—Reuter, Gen, Ho Yao-tsu on Way to Moscow Chungking, Dec. 7, General Ho Yao-tsu, Director of the Exceulive Office of the Generalissimo's headquarters, who is on. his way to Moscow, is leaving Hami, in Chinese Turkestan, today for Alamutu.

General Ho Yao-tsu loft Lanchow yesterday morning and arrived at Hami yesterday afternoon, He inaugurating through air trame between China and Soviet Russia, a statement issued today, the Foreign Office explained that General Ho Yao-issu was going to Moscow on 1 goodwill mission.

Rumours of the resignation of General Yang Chieh, Chinese Ambassador to Russia, and his replacement by General Ho Yao-ssu, it added, were entirely without foundation—Reuter,

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