To the Editor of the "Nonrz-CHiNA Dany News"
Sm,—May I avail of your usual courtesy in requesting you to insert this letter in reply to ihe letter appearing in your issue of the 19th under the caption of Those Mails Again.
A letter to this Administration need not be either too weak or too strong; all that is wanted are the true facts and they will receive full attention but I would like to invite Dis-Gustep to come and visit the various Postal Establishments in Shanghai and he will soon find out for himself that we are not having a sound sleep by all means.
While 1 fully realize the great inconvenience caused to some members of the public through the delay in certain Siberian mails in reaching Shanghai, this does not necessarily mean that we are not making every possible effort to locate the delayed mail and to have it brought to Shanghai at the earliest possible date.
During the last week no less than 682 bags of Siberian mails have been received dated London 12th to 26th of August.
As to the outgoing Siberian mail I also invite Discusren's attention to our Daily Mail Notice of the 17th from which he will read that mails for Europe via Siberia were closed by the s. "Shuntien" via Tientsin. Mails for Siberia are routed via Suez or Pacifc only when no others are available.
A. M. CHAPELAIN.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.