Word: chengtu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieut. Mitchell, after a year on the Shanghai-Peiping run. was sent inland to develop the Chungking-Chengtu route. Diary notes, written on back of weather reports, describe a primitive area where transportation has jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men, women going for operations, an American explorer aiming toward Tibetan Mountains, a German doctor, a U. S. Congressman hunter, a reclamation engineer, a woman archeologist, a Chinese envoy of British government carrying 110 Ib. of silver to Lhasa...
...Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic bases beyond the Ural Mountains too remote to be attacked by any European power. Szechwan Province, ringed by mountains and penetrated by no railway, will be developed by the Generalissimo...
...likely to molest him. Warily he set part of the troops in his personal pay moving slowly toward North China. That Chiang planned any serious resistance to Japan few Chinese dared hope, and he did not go with his troops last week but stayed behind in the city of Chengtu with Mme Chiang...
Another distant subsidiary of Pan American is China National Aviation Corp. which flies up the coast of China from Canton to Peiping and westward across the middle of China, from Shanghai to Chengtu. Last week this company opened in southwestern China a new branch from Chungking to Yunnanfu, Yunnan Province...
...Commercial aviation is making great strides in China. Regular services are now maintained north to Peiping, south to Canton and up the Yangtze to Chengtu, capital of Szechwan. From Shanghai to Chengtu, the trip used to take over a month at certain times of the year. This trip can now be made in two stages of a little over twelve hours flying time. . . . With railways and highways affording ample means of transportation and supplemented by ready means of communication, the safety of persons and property in the outlying districts will be increased, the administrative efficiency of the Central Government will...