The Origins of Airmail in China & Hong Kong 1919-1922

as may be assigned to them. Article 6. The Senior and Junior Clerks, under orders of their superior officers, are responsible for the transaction of the business of these Officers’ Sections. Article 7. The Chief Experts and Experts, under orders of their superior officers, will transact all technical affairs. Article 8. The Department consists of one Office and four Sections as follows:- (a) The Military Section. (b) The Mechanical Section. (c) The Air Transport Section. (d) The Intendance Section. Article 9. The matters dealt with by the General Office are as follows:- The custody of seals; the receipt and despatch of official documents; coding and decoding of telegrams; registration of officials and their promotions, resignations, rewards, transfers and compassionate allowances; medical examination and treatment of flying officers; discipline of the military personnel (guards) of the Department; preservation of property and allotment of duties amongst the four Sections. Also the ordinary work and any special matter not dealt with by one of the four Sections. 18 MARCH 1921 Article in Chinese Press: WORK COMMENCED ON PEKING-SHANGHAI ROUTE. Preparations have been made for commencing work on the air-transport route between Peking and Shanghai. Construction work at Ch’ing Ho aerodrome (outside Peking) will soon be commenced, and the purchase of land at Chinan (Shantung) and at Hsuchow and Nanking (Chiangsu) for the erection of stations along the route, has been completed. It is intended that the work shall be completed in June or July. The Aeronautical Department has engaged two Chinese Aviators Ts’ao Ming-chih and Wu Ju-K’uei as Instructors. They graduated at the Aviation School in the Philippines.

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