It now appears from information circulated by the Imperial Airways the press that by that route letters dspatelied from Shanghai have been delivered in Europe without delay. during January and February, except fon two occasions, Mails wore missed fon January 22° and February 12. Otherwise the despatches from Shans: hai on Jan. 7, 14, 28, Feb, 4, 10, 25 duly caught the airmail from Hong Kong on Jan 8, 15, Feb, 5, 19, 27 and delivery in London, The' connection with the C.NAC, planes" from Shanghai is maintained and when, owing to bad weather, as. has. hap pened once or twice ately, delay occur there is every effort made keep the Honykong plane back 0 as to maintain the connection, - Dur Ing the last quarter of 1936 and Jan. uary 1937 the airmails from Home by the Imperial Airways route have all arrived on the due date, In February tone connection was missed, The introduction of new aircraft on. the England-Australia service and by ENA. on the Shanghai-Canton yun is expected further to reduce the tim transmission of airmails by the Imperial Airways. The object is to operate the Shanghai-Europe route on a through basis, Tt will have be holed that on March 17 mails by the Jand-route from London to Shangh via Siberia dated March 1 were duly dclivered—a_sixteen-day journey all, And there are on record: me stances of the Siberian mait taking only 13-14 days, 'The airmatts have at present therefore very' little margin Dut the proposed shortening of the journey when the new craft have ome into existence should enable the public to obtain a definite advantage by air-mail despatches, If the sui gestion might be made, the El Post Omice would do well w consider the possibility. of equalizing th charges so as to give a fair el Toutes without increased postage expenses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.