Dairen, Jan. 7.
Manchoukuo postal authorities today prepared for the resumption of mail" connections with China on Thureday by placing a new series of stamps on sale.
An elaborate design combining the fAve-petalled orchid crest of the new empire with kaoliang appears on the two and eight fen issues. The four and twelve fen stamps carry a picture jot rugged country done in the class-Ye Chinese style of painting under small orchid emblem, the only Tneripuens appearing on the whole lgsue are the characters "Vu-Tsang" [or Postal Administration, and the various denominations.
"The two-fen stamp is green, four-fen brown eight-fen golden yellow and "twelvesfen " vermilion. "There are no perforations.
The elimination of the portrait of Emperor Kang Teh was explained by 'a high Post-Ofice official as having been done "to prevent any disreepecttul acts against His Majesty's
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.