It would' be interesting to know how long the present postal obstruction to Tsingtao is to continue. Irate subscribers, and not unjustly so #t would seem, are besieging us with unavailing requeste to supply them with newspapers in Tsingtao og before. The Japanese postmaster informs us that newspapers can only be addremed to "Headquarters, Tapanese Garrison while information from the Chinese Post Office states that mail matter for Tsingtao [in at present forwarded to Tainan for transihission to 'Tsingtao as soon as circumstances permit, and that mail matter sent up' till now, haa, as far as is known here, not been transmitted to Taingtao. and is still lying at Tsinan awaiting a-velopments. Accustemed a= most are, to the unfailing aceularity with ° which jail matter. is Handled at home, the haphazard way of the East frets the most placid of tempers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.