The Council established g Postal seviees Sub-Committee to be ready In case of need, but It has not been called. upon, as the Chinese postal authorities are attending eMelently to all. postal matters. In the 1032 emergency, it will be remembered, the employees in the Chinese postal service went on strike and the Counlls postal service then commenced to operate. In the present emergency. the position is entirely different and the Chinese authorities are carrying fon to the utmost of their powers, although naturally the ordinary ser-Vice is restricted.
According 10 information in the Council's possession, the situation is broadly a8. follows:
Mail is being delivered as usual, while contents of private P.O. boxes and the Poste Restante can be obtained from the Development Build Ing ground floor, opposite Hamilton House.
'The Post Omco is making every endeavour to get mait in and out of Shanghai, and, in one way oF one other, it hopes to effect this, 'There were' 800 bugs of mall for Shanghai Inthe President Cootidge.
Dut as very could not then be taken, this mail was carried on to Manila, and the. request made that it should be brought back on the return trip, when another effort will be made to bring it through. By the Aramis, 180 "bays of mail were sent to Hongkong and Europe. this consign ment Including letters addressed vin Siberia, On Friday all mail in hand for Japan was dispatched.
'All mall for the northern district being held for the time being. Former residents of that district Who anticipate mail should call No. 40395 when they will be informed where they can' take delivery.
The mail receiving and mall dis patching department of the head fee have now been transferred. to premises on Vu Yuen Road behind the Bubbling Well Road. Sub-Post OMice and to Rue Massenet, The Sub-Oflces on Carter, Seymour, Sinza anil Fukien Roads and in the French Concession are open 'Air mail for Europe can also be received. This is transmitted to the Hongkong Post Office by any avallable. steamer. There. the mail bag? fare opened ahd the letters are sent by the established air mail' service their destination,
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