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west and Southwest Highway Transport Administrations under the direction of trained and competent men, who are assisted by foreign technicians.

In connection with highways, I should mention that all the famous American makes of motor vehicles are being used on them, and that for the servicing of vehicles, which are of different manufacture, chiefly American and British, there has been organized a central unit to take care of the work under unified direction in order to obtain the utmost efficiency and economy.

Airways and Other Services

The third phase of the transportation problem relates to aviation and the airways. In this respect, China may be said to be quite up-to-date and well equipped. Except for occasional interruption of schedules by enemy attacks, air service is being conducted with safety and speed between all the principal centers in the interior, and between the interior and Soviet Russia to the North, and Hongkong, Indo-China and Burma to the South. With further connections at these places with airways to other parts of the world, the importance of maintaining adequate aerial transportation in the interior of China at the time of war cannot be over-estimated. It takes less than six hours to fly from Chungking to Hongkong, and only six days from Chungking to San Francisco or to the European capitals. There is very close cooperation between the China National Aviation Corporation, the Eurasia Corporation, the Air France, the Imperial Airways and the Pan-American Airways.

Besides railways, highways and airways, the attention of our Government has also been directed to the improvement of waterways, telegraphic and radio communication, postal service and finally to the organization of human labor as a means of transportation. The mobilization of our human