With the growing dominance of! the Left Wing, fears for the future efficiency and even the integrity of the Post Office are increasing.
Tt might be recalled that the withdrawal of foreign Post. Offices from China was a result of assur-Jances given at the Washington Conference that the efficiency of the service would be unimpaired and that the pos: tion and power of the foreign Ca-Director-General would remain unchanged, The question. of the disorganization of the Postal Service was! discussed of a meeting of the Diplomotie Corps to-day, special reference ring made to the facts that individuals without training were being substituted for expert workers ]who were arbitrarily dismissed with cut reference to the Central Administration, that postal matter was being opened, that the unions were frequently using the buildings for fixing anti-foreign posters, and that postal rates were fixed differently. in various parts of the country The ate.
lopsang has arrived and a few details of the pi tical attack' she suffered are available. The ship left Swatow for Hongkong yesterday evening and was taken charge of by pirates at midnight in the neighbourhood of Bias Bay.
Tu the Bay they disembarked with their loot, the amount of which is not vet known, It is understood that one European passenger was slightly injured, The pirates carried out thei usual procedure, rol officers and looting passenger: belongings. Mai and cargo however were left touched and the only casualty was the European previously mentioned.—Reuter.
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