To the Editor of the Norta-Caiva Dalny News.
Srm,—All Britishers have been delighted to see the announcement in your columns that a letter home now costs only' four cents. This joy has been dashed however by the information that only letters posted in Hongkong are included in this privilege. We, of Shanghai and the outports, are still to be regarded as exiles. We hope the Chamber of Commerce or some other influential body will stir themselves so that we may come under the new regulations, Will not you, too, Mr. Editor wield that Pring about the extension of this privilege that is mightier than the sword to If the Shanghai: Post Office willinot come to terms let everybody enclose his letters under cover addressed to the B.P.O., Hongkong, stamped with a 2-cent Chinese stamp to frank the postage to Hongkong and let the enclosed letters bear, a 4-cent Hong-Kong stamp. This will be posting the letters in Hongkong.
Enclosing my card, "Tam, ete., 13th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.