THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1937.
BEYOND THE CHINA GATEWAY
Beyond the China gateway by the use of Douglas transports through which-American "air com- four round trips are made weekly.
with The scheduled flying time f
for the first regular scheduled route is four and one half hours.
merce the
began to move
Shanghai-Canton
flight of the Hong Kong. "Clipper from Manila to Hong Kong, toward which American air travellers be-
Shanghai-Canton Route. This ser- gan to fly for the first time, straight
on October across the Pacific from San Fran-vice was inaugurated cisco with the regular weekly de-[24, 1935. The line, which provides parture of the Hawaii Clipper, service to the South Coast of China to that afforded to the there exists an American aviation similar development concerning: which North Coast by the Shanghai-Pei- most. Americans know little.
ping line, goes by way of Wenchow, It Foochow, Amoy and Swatow.
on October 24, Long declared to be a natural was inaugurated aviation country in terms of popu-1933 with Sikorsky flying boats, lation centres to be served, in dis- which subsequently were replaced tances to be covered, in lack of in November, 1934, by the faster competition from fast surface forms Douglas Dolphins, which now cover of transportation, commercial fly-the distance between Shanghai and ing, nevertheless,
late to Canton in less than seven hours. China. The history of commercial aviation does not begin until 1929. Chungking-Kunming Route.
on May 4, 1935, this On October 20 of that year the augurated
the great Yunnanfu first mail and passenger plane left route serves Shanghai for Hankow. The flight section by way of Kweiyang. Tri- was made in a Loening flying boat, motored Fords cover the route in symbolic of the large part which regular operation in three and one. American aircraft and American half hours. aviation genius were to play in the upbuilding of a system of regular air transport in the Yellow public.
came
The Keystone
Re-
Wings Over Colony Of Macao
trade routes changed Subtle, but significant, has been, travel and the prestige which successive-forms and the early fame of the Portu- of transportation have conferred guese colony was largely forgotten. upon the communities of mankind
New Civic Spirit which they have chanced to touch.
One hamlets were deliberately founded upon waterways for the commercial prosperity which the water-borne traffic of that particu- lar medium of transportation was certain to bring.
The intersection of wagon In- trails once was sufficient to confer prosperity upon an otherwise point- less grouping of habitations,
History Repeats Itself-
In the founding of the tions. In the founding of the West, the difference between fame and obscurity for many a city was determined by whether or not it was "on the railroad.” In this power
to confer distinction, air
With the appearance of the name Macao on the airline time tables of the world a new civic spirit has colony. Once again, through that developed in this China-coast power which transportation in its various forms; can confer, it has become the "gateway to
the Orient."
Macao's international airport, the first stop in China on the last stage of Fan American Airways transpacific route from the United States, to Asia, has become the centre of this new activity. new interest and
This sea airport is located within the Outer Harbour of Macao, pro- tected by great breakwaters and served by a landing stage and a terminal, formerly a government
In Eighteen, Provinces. Just recently there has been a aviation -in- great resurgence of terest throughout all China and air- port-building activities are to be transportation in the era of rapidly building. The keystone of this system, as noted in all parts of the Yellow Re- developing airways has repeated it exists to-day, is the China Na-public. In the near future it is ex-the history of earlier types of tional Aviation Corporation, a joint pected that all eighteen provinces locomotion. undertaking of the National Gov-of China will be accessible by air- ernment of China and American planes in regular scheduled oper- aviation interests represented by ation. Pan American Airways.
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For nearly four centuries a tiny colony on the shores of the China Seas has seen and been a part of The keystone of this rapidly the history of the East. Through
its port passed the first The first undertaking of the growing system of airways newly created China National Avia- China National Aviation Corpor- of trade and commerce between outside world. tion Corporation was the establish- ation, the services of which are China and the ment of an air line between Shang-now directly linked with America's Nearly a century ago the first hard hai and Chengtu, by way of Nan-rapidly expanding system of inter sailing Yankee Clippers circled a king, Anking, Kiukang, Hankow, national airlines through. the in- continent, rounded the Horn, span- Shasi, Ichang,.. Wanhsien and strument of the extension of Panned an ocean to make that colony the gateway to the Orient. But Chungking. This provided commer-American Airways trans-pacific cial air service to commercially im- route from the mainland of North portant centres along the Yangtse America to the mainland of Asia, River.
From this beginning there has developed an airways system serv- ing the coastal and eastern section
PLANE'S
of China and comprised of three WONDER
main aerial arteries.
These are:-
Shanghai-Peiping
NON-STOP
Shanghai-Peiping Route. This FLIGHT
has proven to be an extremely po
pular airway, serving some of the Sometime ago the “C” Class Fly-
non-
largest commercial centres of the
ing Boat "Caledonia” made North Coast of China, the route stop flights from Southampton to running from Shanghai to Peiping Alexandria and Alexandria/South- by way to Haichow, Tsingtao and ampton. The "Caledonia" is one of Tientsin. The route is approxi- the flying boats designed for the mately 1,000 miles in length and is Atlantic crossing and is fitted with covered in seven and a half hours extra tankage, and these flying time. The former travel purely experimental flights. time was a matter of days. This
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were
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of the route was first flown on Jan. 10,. Recently, however, one 1933, on a schedule of one flight home-bound services from Austra- each week. Later two round trips lia was delayed by bad weather at were flown each week, while to-day Delhi, and reached Alexandria 24- hours late. Here the services are
KILLED BY A TOY MOTOR-CAR taken over by the flying boats, and in this case the whole journey of 2,222 miles to Southampton Was
Mr. TW. Belcher aged 72 was
knocked down at Oxford by a toy accomplished in one day and the
-service arrived on schedule.
motor-car in which two children,
aged four
and five, were playing. This remarkable feat was accom the in-plished by one of the ordinary ser
He was filled. Verdict at quest: Accidental Death..
Eighteen months ago his was killed by a car in the road
life the spot where he mocked down.
vice aircraft
Copying the usual |
wife complement
passengers, mail, and freight, and making the sche
was duled stops at
Athens,
Rome, Marseilles and
Brindis
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4% DAYS
PENANG-LONDON
5% DAYS
SINGAPORE LONDON
TWICE WEEKLY
Special Through Fares on Application. Government Officia
and Officers- 10% Reduction
High on.. the eminence of Penha Hill there has been estab- lished a communication centre, in- cluding a radio direction finder, and a meteorological station. In and through these aids to modern navigation, history is repeating it. self on the shores of the Seas to-day as the shadow of the Clipper wing replaces the almost forgotten shadow of the clipper sail,
The Ministry of Marine in Paris has
proposal for making Agadir a naval published an official denial that any base will be put before the Chamber.
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