To the Editor of the Norra-Cuixa Datty News."
Sir,—With reference to your editorial of this morning touching the smuggling of morphia an similar drags through the Japanese Post Office, I would state that your allegation is absolutely unfounded.
These articles are prohibited under penalty from__ posting through the Japanese Post Office for exportation to China; and all parcels are examined strictly in accepting as to whether or not they contain contraband. On arrival, they undergo a severe examination by the Customs' officers.
The Japanese Post Office is not a safe channel for the passage into China of parcels of morphia and similar drugs, but an impenetrable wall, through which if certain individuals intrude they are dealt with according to the provisions of the penal law.
As to why the Japanese Post Office has been somewhat indifferent about refuting the statements in some newspapers (of which I recall two instances since last summer) I beg Leave to state—should these be the charges referred to in your leader—that the one was too vague and the other too prejudiced for any thinking person to seck to refute.
I am, ete., K. Nakapaysu1.
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