'The local Chinese "Post" Office still enforcing the order that fame from: an' unknown military Jperson at Nanking, without the knowledge of the vil authori ties' in Shanghai and presumably Jwithout the approval of Chiang Kai-shek or anyone else worth quoting, and continues to prohibit the "North-China -Daily News" the use of the mails. Thi situation created is, of cour: much less serious for us than for the Chinese Postal Service, as events will prove in the end, Jand the burden of inconvenience which it imposes upon us li much lightened by the absurdity lof the whole affair.
We hav just had a plain for instance, {from a "National general no further away than Lunghua who wants to know why he has not. recei d_his "North-China Daily News'
for several days. W have also had an expression of stonishment from another high Nationalist" official who cannot, understand why Mr. Shields, th local. Commissioner of Po! should have taken: seriously: a lorder that was never meant to|/TOs anything but a gesture and which no Chinese expected him to heed.
'A more serious feature of the case, however, is the flood of testimony that it is bringing u: 8 show how very badly the service here has been managed, how. much. interference and trifling with the mails there ha' been, how grave a situation the foreign heads of the local vice have tolerated, while giving ithe service an air of normality remaining at their posts. We. have evidence of one man whose. only letter received in six months iwas an express letter. We hear on good authority of another who almost never receives a letter from a certain correspondent that is not slit open. We institution. and is, therefor
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