Save Money on European Mail via Dairen hood of frane-Siberian mals, con:
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siderably' overdue, arriving shortly jn'Shanghal. Already 100° bags of newspaper, nial, ated. London Joly 18 Ta, and 14 and Berlin 13, ani io has "reached "the Shanghai Post "Offce and. it is it earned, from post office. officials that a wire has been received from Tientsin to the effect that 143 bags of nail are now on their way here. These are thought been contain the that has hitherto been supposed missing. post. office authorities call the attention of the public to the fact that prepayment of - full postage is absolutely compulsory on all. second class mail matter, Bnd "that mails found' unprepaid, or insufficiently prepaid, will' not, be forwarded.
The blockade of the post office in Manchukuo has inspired ingenious people with a turn for thrift to the making of an honest penny for themselves, which also, incidentally, enriches the Manchuktio post office but, unfortunately, leaves the Chinese post office with the burden of Joss. All "that is required is a fend or agent in Dairen and the procedure is simple, A letter cait be sent to Dairen from here on a 5 cent postage, ora quantity bulk'as'a parcel. These cane forwarded from Dairen at the rate of 14 cents each letter, making a total of 19 cents as against the 25 cent postage required to send a letter "direct from Shanghai to Europe, with a resulting saving of 6 cents, Investigations carried out by the coa postal authorities into the facilities provided for the. transmission of mails via the Saigon: Marseilles Air-line, which was commented upon by the *North-Chine 'Commissioner now confirms the pro-Jeedure and states moreover that' the service from Saigon. to Mars 18 been reduced from 11 days to 84 days. A. further reduction in the ume has also been achieved by three days a week train service tween Saigon and Haiphong which now possible in 2)" days, To enable the public to take ad.
intage of this service, since the Siberian route is uncertain, makin it possible for mails from Shanghai reach Eutope, within 16 to 19 days the rates bel low are. published for any correspondence either mary or registered, but exclude ing insured mai In addition to the usual _international ordinary postage plus Registration fee, if any, as well as the domestic ait mail feo if trans. mitted in China, by the National 'Air mail ines,' (16 cents per section), air mail correspondence be transmitted over any section of the Saigon-Marseilles line is to be franked as follows for every unit of 20 grammes or fraction thereof:
Distanes For every, from 20 eet ie ae ate Athens, for Italy vid Naples, and ence leat See 'Tne latest Chinese trade guilds join the boycott movement include the Jewel Merchants' Association and the Restaurant Proprietors' Association. Both these association: have "ordered their members refrain from purchasing any more [Japanese products and. announced inva cirewlar notice that, should any member be found fo have dealt ly aedes ignored. this warning, they. tion, In view of this, they felt it in the interests of shareholders to reign.
is understood that @ new con: purely Chinese samainistered: any will be formed, which will be' Purely Chinese owned, administered:
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