Better Facilities and Cheaper Postal Rates Shanghai, Avg. 11.
<Local newspaper organizations have jointly submitted a memorandum to the National Communications Conference pleading for better facilities for the transmission of news and the delivery of newspapers and periodicals.
The memorandum begins by briefly emphasizing the importance of newspapers in the development of a country and deploring the lack encouragement given to the press daring the reign of the militarists. Special reforms and special privileges are demanded.
First, uniform postal charges for delivery of newspapers within China are considered necessary. According to the memorandum, the present regulation of the Chinese Postal Office, which charge ten times more than the ordinary bulk rates for delivery of newspapers places not served by steamships and railways, is most unseient as the regulation places a handi on the people who, beeauce of their living inland, necd"the newspaper most.
Secondly, the current postal rate of 7 cents for the delivery of a newspaper to the Straits Settlements is considered much too: high, Freight charges.
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