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Show I oo (Eighteen Americans j Sail for Shanghai SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S. Eighteen Eigh-teen American aviators, including one woman, will sail from hero next Friday to take up work in the far east under a concern now arranging establishment estab-lishment of an aerial lino between Shanghai and Hong Kong. They are to go on the steamer Nile, agents for which announced tho party had booked passage today. The service later may bo extended to Manila, it was stated. Tho expedition is undor the direction direc-tion of Walter D. Bonner, American aviator at the occupation of Vera Cruz, an overseas veteran and later I an aviation instructor at San Diego. jThe woman aviator Is Miss Ethel I Bowman Breet. The equipment, shipped from New York recently on tho steamer Dacre, Includes seven seaplanes, and announcement an-nouncement was made here today that a contract had been closed for 135 more machines to be delivered within i the next three years. |