The Japanese Post office announcement to-day that letters and postcards can now be sent to!
Tsingtao is a step in the right direction, heralding, we! hope, the early reopening of the port. A notice has lately been issued through th> Consulate-General that Property-owners and those interested in property in Tsingtao were to be admitted, exo2pt of course Aus-trinns and Germans. But a" telegram received yesterday from the representative of a large firm now at Tsinanfu, co1 ined that this notice hae no practical meaning as ties yet, that the Japanese are passively obstructive and recommend waiting at Tsinanfu at present It is quite possible that approaches to the harbour are still dangerous from' undiscovered mines. But this caution can hardly apply to the town, which was moreover very slightly damaged by the siege We trust that no further difficulties will be put in the way of foreigners connected with the business of Tsingtao from returning
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.