from Berne The "North-China Herald" under stands thatthe International estal Union at Berne on December: received from the Postal Administrations of Japan and Soviet Russia an important intimation regarding the despatch of mails to the ar East, of this information nal Postal Union is believed to have gathered that the transmission by the Chinese Eastern Railway of Japanese mails Interrupted since the beginning of August has "been resumed, Such mails will be forwarded in future by way of Mukden, Harbin and Chita, From January 1, mails for the Far East' despatched by way rf Soviet Russia have been forwarded to Manchuli by fast train leaving Moscow on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays for all places in' Manchukuo, Japan, Hongkong and Ma Malis for Shanghai, Peking, Tientsin Canton, and other Chinese towns will be transmitted ax at present to Viadi-Yosteck by fast trains leaving Moscow on Wednesdays and Saturdays until further notice.
The Shanghai Post Office is under stood to have delivered the London mails of December 12 to 17, both dates inelusiv the London The London mails of December 28 to 31, inclusive, were delivered on January 26. All these came by. Siberia, but in many cases letters of those dates also received in Shanghai at the same time, or even earlier, by sea route, Further reference to this subject is made in a leading:
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