Dr, Mei Lan-fan will broadcast Chinese operas over station XMHB beginning to-morrow, for three days, to raise funds for the Chiese war refugees. Hours of his programme have been fixed at 1 to 426 o'clock in the afternoon and 445 to 8 in the evening, "The public may, however, be assured that we will do all we can, to release this mail, and have it deliye! ed in Shanghai," declared M. Châ- plain, director of posts, when ques~ tioned about the stoppage yesterday.
Mail is sent up to Nanking every day, being carried by truck as far as Soochow, and by truck or train from there to the capital. It is transferred to river steamers for shipment to Hankow and upper river ports. Every Butterfield & Swire steamer which leaves for the north has on board a consignment of mail destined for Europe via Siberia, The mail is taken to Tientsin by steamer, and then transferred to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The first consignment of mail to be sent from Shanghai via Siberia was dispatched.on the eighteenth of this month, and from now on consignments will leave for Europe every four days
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