Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 7 | Japanese Show Anxiety About World Flights

JAPANESE SHOW. 1 ANXIETY ABOUT WOELD FLIGHTS .1. '. ' - ' III! . . TOKIO. Way IT (By A. P.) Mia. (lad admiration and aary, tlaged with a vacua tear Uat Japan b laft too far bahlnd tn tha development of military aviation, characterises tba oomsaenta of Japanese on tha round tho world flight by Araortcaa aad Brltlah avlatora alroady tinder way. Intelligent Japanaoa aro awaro of thalr oauntry'o backwardness la aviation. Therefore thalr admlra-tloa admlra-tloa for tha oaplolta of tho Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxons, although genuine, la aeeoaa-pan aeeoaa-pan lad by regret that tbay cannot enter tho oorapotltloa for globe girdling hoBora. Tho probability that both tha British and American airman will be crossing Japan at tha eame tlma In oppoalto dlree-tlana, dlree-tlana, and poaalbly will bo refitting at Kaaumlgaura, noar Toklo, etmul-Uaooualy, etmul-Uaooualy, haa Intaealflad Japaa'a Interval la aviation. Tha Oaaka Aaahl. after describing describ-ing tha Amarlcan and British flight plana and expressing admiration for lha daring of tho mere, aayal "Al- though wa would Ilk for our awn aviator to participate la tho competition, com-petition, w muat roalreo that they are In no poeitlon to do ao. It 1 highly regrettable that wa moat be content with watching and studying th progr of aviation ehown." Tha Aaahl then remark that no aviator bav ver croaaed th Pool Po-ol fio acan, and that tha Japanea. btuiu oi tbeir poalUon, wiU atady th auccea of th America a attempt. at-tempt. "Whoever may win tha laurel a," contlnu th paper, "the achievement achieve-ment will ba aa Important point In th hlaiory bf aerial navlgatlo. perhap a turning point In the red-ord red-ord of olvlllaation. 1-Yom thia atand-point atand-point w hop for their auccea. fierce competition In aerial expansion expan-sion now in progreaa between America, Great Britain and France." The Aaahl expresses hope In the possibility that tho pacific BrMlah labor government may do something some-thing to leaaen the dangers of tha competition, and then continues: ! "The competition to girdle the globe by air may have no connection connec-tion with the avlatloa expansion plana of the powers, but It aeema that the United H tales waa Influenced Influ-enced by the British and French competition to plan thia round tha world flight.- Announcement of the American plan brought out almllar projecta la Britain and France. Thia being the case, it Is natural that discussion Is going on of a new die-armament die-armament conference. "If these flights are planned to further - peaceful .communication throughout the world, they ahould receive every support, if, however, they are Intended to aaalat In the expansion of military air foroea, they muat be decried; they ahouM be stopped. If the British and Americana seek only to densonetrate the feasibility of traveling around tha world by air, Japan can ba eon-tent eon-tent with her role of onlooker; but if their flights aro preparation for expansion of their military aviation defenses. Japan muat adopt plana to moat the altuatloa.- -