Gradually the delayed European mails are July and Aug. 10—speaking of London has yet to be filled, but mails up to Aug. 30 have been delivered. Another large batch which should make up arrears is expected to-morrow. This evokes gratitude for the persistence of the Post Office in worrying out the missing letters in true terrier fashion. In a way it is curious thus to be reading private correspondence and newspapers which jumped into the Shanghai story in the as it were. First impressions of the broke out in the London press have yet te ascertained. and into the bargain an apparent attempt to stultify those apologies. y
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