To the Editor of the "Nortu-Ouiwa Day News."
Sir,—(1) Why it is that letters addressed to ma at Hangchow, if posted in China, invariably are sent by the shortest route: but, if posted in Unzen, Japan, they with allmogt equal invariability are sent vid Hankow or Hongkong?
(2) Whether this has anything to do with the fact that Japan, whose postal service is notoriously one of the worst in the world, insisted at the Washington Conference, when it wes arr: that Foreign Post Offices in China were to be abolished, that a certain number of Japanese should be employed by the Chinese Post Office "in the interests of efficiency?"
(3) Whether the "interests of efficiency" would not have been better served if the Chinese Government, whose postal service ig one of the best in the world, had insisted that the Japanese Post Office should employ a certain number of Chinese.
I am, ete., Fep Ur.
Hangchow, July 19, 1923.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.