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Show AIRPLANE TO DEVELOP CHINA ! : . :. -r- 1 American Commercial Attache Point ( OutXow Problem Facing That - ' Country May Be MeC The keynote of the great problem of development which Is facing China is transportation. The American commercial com-mercial attache at Peking, Mr. Julian Arnold, has laid emphasis on this In an article In the Chinese Recorder "China's Economic Problems and Christian Missionary Effort." Mr. Arnold deals with the necessity of preparing pre-paring the Chinese people for the great economic change which is upon them. Railways' will mean much to China, but the necessity for the training train-ing and preparation of which , Mr. Arnold speaks' is shown to be distinctly dis-tinctly urgent when Prof. Middleton Smith's views on the use of airplanes to China are known. China is a land of waterways, and these waterways afford the necessary existing lines of transportation along which, to secure the success of commercial aviation, airdromes and supply depots should be established. Schools of technical training should supply the necessary Chinese skilled labor, and with these aerial services established, Professor Smith foresees such an Incalculable Increase in the rapidity of communications communica-tions as completely to revolutionize the country Internally and add to its deep importance as a world factor. |