We have not yet heard the last of the missing letters. Almost every week brings letters which show that those which we wrote have gone astray. In spite of writing regular-their destination ofthe many written between by every mail only two letters reached December 9th and February the 7th. Of the two one was registered. Very much should we like to know where they huve gone. We feel sure that the Chinese Post Office is not responsible, not only because we have care-{ally investigated their methods, but also because letters sent by them to Shanghai and other Chinese ports have very rarely miscarried. We do not think the local Rermay be, as one of your correspondents stan in England is the culprit though
suggests, an ardent stamp-collector, for leiiers addressed to all parts of England have shared a like fate, and we find it hard to believe that th postmen have all taken to collecting stamps with such dishonest zeal. If they have not been stolen in Havkow nor in England we still fear, in spite of the exhortations of one of your anonymous correspondents, that they must have miscarried at the one sorting-house that they stop at between Hankow and London. In 'a leading article which we with many other sufferers read with great interest you seemed to assume that the letters were now going home safely once more. We wish we were equally assured that such is the case.
1st May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.