By order of the authorities in charge of the District Hend Office for Shantung (at Tsingtao, falsely called" Kiaochou") our local foreign postmaster has been transferred to another position, thus leaving this important office entirely in the hands of a hinese taft, The retiring head of affairs, Mr. B, Arndt, had proved himself the very man for the place, xffible, gentlemanly, and obliging towards Chinese and foreigners alike, to say netiing of his executive ability. We regret hia removal, not only for the advantages of his presence, but als because it has not seemed necessary to those in control to supply the place with an incumbent equally well-equipped for mannging the several mail routes centering at this Jarge mercantile city. [tis the strong cor viction both in the interior and at the coast that Weihsien should be manned by " cometent foreign postmaster. Here three very important routes converge, to wit, from Chefoo, Tsingtao, and Chinanfu. These are the channel through which flow nearly all the mail for the numerous foreign residents en route, not to mention the millions of
system will largely depend upon its prompt-natives here future 7, of the new mull and reliability." If Shantung mat have Chinese postmisters at this early stage in the experiment, why not make un effort to furnish men fron this province whose Knowledge of local any, whose dialect and social attitude, will gain the confidence ofthe people sooner than can those who come from distant partsofChina? If Shantung cannot furnish the men Chili province certainly can.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.