The announcement by the Post Office that the missing Siberian mails are now being all delivered is very satisfactory. There has naturally been considerable anxiety expressed on account of the dislocation which the outbreak of the present crisis caused in the transmission of the mails, The confusion into which business was thrown was certainly accentuated by the non-arrival of letters from Europe. The amount of work which the Post Office must have put in to locate mails and ensure their eventual safe transmission here is gratefully recognized. There are still some American mails to come and the Post Office announcement shows that steps are being taken to com. plete that important sect ich of Shanghai's cor Tespondence as soon as possible. As certain of the mails have come to Shanghai via Japan it may be well to add that the Postal authorities received all those bags intact. Fears have been expressed that, by some means or other, operations of censorship had been applied to such mails. Although there is apparently a censorship on letters posted in Japan the Japanese authorities in passing on mail bags which normally should have come via the Peking-Mukden Railway in China did not break the seals of those bags, and any suggestion that there was an infringement of international regulations in this matter cannot be supported, Correspondents have also received intimation that letters arriving in London have been opened. This again cannot be due to any change of route resulting from the present difficulties; It seems probable that the fact that certain letters were received in an open. condition. was due entirely to accidental causes free from any. association with censorship or the like.
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