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SHE FLIES FOR CHINA

Lee Ya Ghing is China’s First Lady of the Air. She was the first 
woman in China to fly, and the example set by her has been followed 
by many Chinese youths, now flying for the United Nations.

After [[strikethrough]] studying and travelling in Europe, Miss Lee returned to China and was there in 1931 when Japan started her aggression into Manchuria.  She shared the antagonism fo Japan's invasijon felt by all the youth of China.  In common with all the
youth of China, she resented Japan's invasion, and like them, determined to cont ibute her bit to China's defense as soon as she could.

A short time after this, Miss Lee returned to Geneva, and entered  the   Ecolde d'Aviation.  I [[strikethrough]] a few months, she received her flying license in Geneva, and the first Chinese woman ever to
become a pilot.

After a year of flyng on the continent, Miss Lee came to this country to continue her [[strikethrough]] airplane training. She [[strikethrough]] entered the Boeing School of Aeronautics in San Francisco, the finest school of aviation in the wrold.

During that year at Boeing, Lee Ya-ching became a finish pilot, learning everything there was to be learned about a plane, from celestial navigation to mechanics. Her classmates were all young men training to become transport pilots.

She returned to China in 1936—just a year before Japan started her invasion of China. During this time she piloted a government plane around China, to interest China's young men in aviation attack. She also became a co-pilot on China's Southwestern Airline.

After war started, she did relief work and hospital work in Shanghai until that city fell to the invaders. She escaped to Canton, and continued her volunteer work for the wounded and the refugees.

At the end of 1938 Lee Ya-ching came to this country and made her first serial goodwill tour, flying for Chinese relief organizations, and later for the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China and for China Aid Council, now participating agencies of UCR. In three months of one trip she visited 40 cties,

Lee Ya-ching has been [[strikethrough]] flying and lecturing for the UCR for the past two years, a nd has be come one of China's most distinguished goodwill ambassadors.