Moscow, Jan. 27.
In connection with the protracted unlawful. detention by the Japane: Manchurian authorities of a large quantity of mail and Soviet citizens together with the mail plane and airmen who, having lost their way, made a forced landing on the Manchoukuo territory oh December 19 and owing to the absence of a satisfactory answer of the Japanese Government to the repeated addresses by the Soviet Government on this subject, the People's Commissariat of Postal and Electrical Communication of U.S.S.R. on January 26 notified the postal ád-ministration and the Ministry of Communications" of Japan that in accordance with Article V of the Agreement between U.S.S.R: and Japan about the- exchange of postal parcels, the Commissariat has instructed to suspend temporarily from January 27 ihe entire direct and transit exchange of postal parcels between U.S.S.R. and Japan. in both directions, Parcels sent from other countries via U.S.8.R. to Japan before January 28, as well as parcels em route from Japan to other countries and which are on the territory of U.S.S.R- at the moment of suspension, wil] be sent according to destination.
Concerning this, the People's Commissariat of. Postal amd Electrical Communications, has notified the postal administration of those countries with -which the U.SSR. has agreements about parcels exchange, also the International Bureau of Universal Postal Union in Bern.—Tass.
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