The Archive · 1940

Air Service Opened To Hangchow

Shanghai, June 5.

new air service has' just been opened by the China Aviation Com-any, a Japanese managed concern, between Shanghai and. Hangchow, slates the' "Sin Shun Pao." A pas-'Senger plane left Shanghai on June 1 at 9 am. for Hangchow reaching Its destination 69 minutes later. The Telura trip was made of 2 pam. arriving at 250 pam. The new Hangchow ofice of the company isin Ying Chi Road. The company is also Planning to start alr services between Shanghat, Canton and Tsingtao. closing, the spokesman quoted the' Biblical' parable, "Judge ye not others lest ye be judged." "He added, "Ig the missionaries could grasp the spirit of these parables, they would bbe better Christians."

Later, when questioned if the Japanese might take "positive action" if these missionaries continued to mix. polities and religion, the spokesman ointed out that he fully realized the dimeulties in dividing" polities and religions.

Pointed to France as an example, the spokesman declared that France had wrestled with the problem for centuries and that only recently had found a "solution. Applying this example to the present action of missionaries in Chungking, the spokes man declared that these persons are reverting to an "old order."

He added that should the activities of the missionaries assume hostile character, it probably would be "Incumbent upon the Japanese authorites to reconsider their position from hat "light

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