A local Japanese newspaper has recently Iaunched an attack on_ the administration of the Chinese Post Office in Shanghai. It alleges that Japanese residents have experienced feonsiderable delay over the receipt of their mails and that in some eases mails have not been delivered fat all, and that the consensus opinion among. the Japan munity impeaches. the Chinese "on the sounds of untrustworthiness in an administration of such importance as the postal service, it states further that" it must warn the Chinese Post Office, but, beyond this somewhat loose statement, obscurity ils the of the warning, is, however, pointed out, that it8 admonition not be heeded it. is proposed to devise means by which the Japanese themselves will cope with' the situation, The specific case quoted is the Woosung Road sub-office, which it in claimed was established for the [Japanese residents, which would not be affected by genéval postal strikes nor become disorganised by anti-Japanese feeling. The report then proceeds to explain that as this office is staffed by Chinese employees only, whose antipathy refects on their efficiency and. who are influenced by the propaganda of agitators, anti-Japanese feeling is rampant.
The same paper also reproduces, and labels as groundless, a transla: tion of protest from the Chinese 'National Government to the Japan: ese Government, the effect of which accusation against the Japan-jose residents of Peking, 'Tient 'Tsingtao, and Shanghai of frank mail for' Manchuria with Japanese postage stamps and sending it vin Dairen. The protest. alleges also that mail from Shanghai is sent out unfranked. The paper scouts this tion entirely, asserting that subjects are resorting to ho. such means to disorganised the Chinese posts
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