Arizona republican., 1921-06-06
Bert Barr Flying Circus Scores
 Remarkable Triumph In Old Japan

imperial diet one aviation item of the navy alone calls for the expenditure of 100000 yen and the army Is about to establish an aviation station on Lake Biwa at the expenditure of about 100000 yen also.
 The first aviation corps of the army was established as early as 1915, but it was not even independent at the time 1t was tackled on to the en- gineer's corps Now 1t has attained .he status of an independent service composed of four battalions: one of them is stationed at Tokorozawa avi- ation field near TolSio. another at Kagamigabara. and another at Yok- kachi. and the last at TachiraL The first military aviation school was opened in January. 1920. and commis- stoned officers and non commissioned officers made up the major portion of it's 100 students At the end of 1920 the army was reported to have about 500 airplanes. most of which were purchased from France. England and the United States The flying corps of the navy is based at the two great naval ports of Japan, kure and Sa- sebo. The navy Is doing better than the army. as far as the construction of planes is concerned. Its shops
  planes of the Farman type Admiral Kato. the minister of the navy. speak ing before the fortieth session of the | imperial diet. said that the aviation program of the navy called for the completion of 1s0 planes by March. 1923.
 | All this appears to eyes accus- toned to the American and European skies like the pace of lame snail this story of military aviation in Ja- pan. When it comes to the develop ment of our civilian flyers and their achievements it's worse-much worse in fact. Two years after the great war had demonstrated in the most sensational and impressive manner the vital part aircraft are destined
 to play in the struggles of human races both in war and in commerce that i- to say. at the end of 192c-
 1t was reported that Japan had about thirty civilian flyers of more CT less
 statement it Is almost shockingly in- lcredible. Thanks to the persistent and skiiiful propaganda of her enc
 mics and of her friends. the efficicnc, of the Japanese army has been over
 rated beyond all recognition And
 our air service suffers from the sams
 cause.
 Take. for example. the case of oul
 air mail There has been enough bil
 talk on the theme among the JapA' nese-especially our newspapers--t'
 inflate a couple of million Zeppelins But in this year of grace 1891. month and months after American air mai , men measured the North Americal continent from the Atlantic to tn
 Pacific in 25 hours. 2l minutes O ! actual flying time. and weeks after woman flyer flew over the Ande from Mendoza. Argentina. to Chile r the establishment of a regular al : mail from Tokio 10 Osaka is stili | , the realm of bombastic adjectiyel
 It's an excellent material for comi , opera. and why a latter-day Gilber | and Sullivan has not turned it int ], an date -Mikado- is not quit f clear.
 Just what. then. is the matter vii JapanSho or what is clipping h' 2 wings. or what sort of miilstones ai n thrown about her neck- First or a 4 up to the end of 1920. we have n'
 had a single plant in the whole ( l, the Nippon empire which could tur out even fairly practical airplane ms n tors: not a single military factor o which could manufacture either all
 ships or planes It was. in deed 1u ' few weeks ago that the two gre V shipbuiidinE plants Of the empire. VI a Mitsubishi people and the kawasa n interests. have-out of sheer sham . no doubt, rather than from prospec = of immediate profits in the enterpri
 taken up the manufacture of aeri l. engine.
 r The Mitsubishi engineers. for son Y time past had been expertmentii h with an engine at their Kobe piaf n Now the company has established {, new plant at Nagoya to which it h |. moved the entire engine constructi' e department of the shipbuilding va . from the Kobe plant And this ne - plant Is to devote itself largely to q v manufacture of airpiane engines { <, for the Kawasaki dockyard. its pres dent. Mir Matsukata- has just pass :. through New York on his way 10 E - rope He had already dispatch
 Lieutenant Hioki to France to c '. anime carefully what that count ,a has done since the war in the co ss struction of airplanes. And on
 present trip MT. Matsukata Is 10 q vote himself entirely 10 the study a
 purchase of machinery and mater :, necessary for the building of aer =. engines and planes Both the arr ',, and the navy of Japan are heay
 interested in the activities of the ( e< companies as far as their aircraft VI partrnents are concerned. for both