Outgoing mail is being handled by the post office more or less as usual. Air mail is temporarily out of the question and mail marked via Siberia is being sent to its destination by the first departing vessel, whether the ship is going to America or Europe via Suez. Briefly, the post office here is operating as usual and whether mails arrive or depart depends on the shipping. The shipping situation is becoming easier.
"Business as usual," said M. Chaplain with a smile yesterday, "but nobody comes to see us. People don't like to cross the Creek." When the comment was made that many people did not realize that the Post Office was still operating in the main building, the Commissioner merely said "We are silent workers."
No lights are allowed in the building at night by the soldiery without, M, Chapelain has resorted to the use of a light in his strong room which gives him enough illumination without annoying the tin-hatted figures on the street below. Shells have burst around the building which has managed to escape unscathed. The nights, however, have been noisy ones for the Postal Commissioner,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.