To the Eater of the "Nommi-Cumta Dany News"
Sm—The delay in delivery cannot be entirely duc to weather conditions. 9s one of your cor Fespondenis would have you be-Heve. I have consistently used the "alr mall since these facilities were made available to us, and I find that the average time taken Is twenty recently sent a letter to my wife, Which ought to have reached her in England six days before she left—according to the Post OMice notice in the paper—but the letter arrived a week after her departure. It was returned to me in Shanghai via Siberin and arrived here five days before her' rival here.
T enclose an envelope, This letter was posted In London on March 3 and arrived in Canton, as you will gee from the Canton post mark, on the 17th. - It was received in Shanghai fon the 26th and delivered at my office on the 27th. It was pointed out, to me in the letter that the alr mail was being used because "it Is of the greatest importance that we have an. immediate reply" and that "a copy is being sent via Siberia." The copy was replied to on the 23rd instant, s0 that a whole week was saved, a8 nothing could have been done on Saturday, this being Easter, However, we can only persevere, and hope that the management of line will Improve.
Shanghai, Apr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.