General whether he is aware that mail fom London to Shanghai, vis Siberia, now pass through Manchuria, and only Afteen to sixteen days, but that mails from Shanghai to London are still sent via Vladivostok, and take 27 to 28 days; whether he can explain this anomaly; and what steps taking to get' tt corrected 'Sir K. Wood: So far as mails from London' to Shanghai are concerned, the routing of the mails is as stated joy the hon. Member, but the time of transit Is from sixteen to nineteen
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