Third Time in a Month of Bag Being Broken Into For the third time this month, case of the Siberian mails having Deen tampered with was discovered on January 20, The Hakozaki Maru arrived during the morning with 200 bags of mail from all European including, of course, ain, Following the usual practice, officials of the Post Office went on board to take delivery of the mai A fon is always nade, and no doubt this has become still more careful in view of the happenings earlier in the month, Tenvas seen that the seal of one of the bags—which was ascertained ater to be one of those that let: London on December 25—had an. appearance that aroused suspicion. The postal officials thereupon refused to sign for this bag.
An affeer of the steamer and two! postal officials went to the Post Office. where the bag was formally opened.
Tt was found that, for the the registered mail from lad. been tampered with. Tnvestigation showed—that" fono registered articles for Shanghai were affected, but it has not yet been ascertained whether any of the contents are missing.
[As on the two previous' occasions, a telegram was sent to th? Postmaster General in London, notifying him of the incident. A also cabled to the:
Japanese postal officials, the ordinary course of things, had the bags in custody before' they arrived at Shanghai, No reply has yet been received from London to the two previous messages from Shanghai relating to tampering with mail, Readers will to interested to earn that they can low revert to the former practice of mari letters for Europe. "Via Siberi AIL mails are now being sent Dairen. The lood office of the Chinese Eastern Railway has not yet received detailed information about the damaged portion of th: Tine, but it is certain that repairs are approaching completion, and that traffic will be quite. restored by the end of the month. Up to the 26th instant outgoing Siberian mails are. being forwarded via Suifenko, but the direct route wilt tre adopted from, and ind lading February-1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.