To, the Editor of the "Nort-Caiwa Datty News."
Sin,—I doubt if the answer given to your representative by the Postal Commissioner will have satisfied many of the firms and individuals Who have not received any mail via Siberia for over a fortnight.
To state that they do not care about mails as long as there are no missing dates, when everyone is strongly of opinion that, if mails have not been received, the reason is that the Chinese Postal Administration has refused to receive m, is, in my opinion, quite unworthy of an Administration which, in the past, has done so much to carry on, in spite of any difficulties they had to face. Strong complaints have been" made lately about the interference in the service due to strikes, postal unions and so on; it would' be a pity if, addition, the responsible high officials were now more concerned 2! about politics than al put the inferests'of the publi When the" Chinese Postal Administration decided to declare a boycott on Manchukuo, it. stated that they would tax letters stamped with the mew Manchukuo stamps, but it was never stated that. they Would refuse to accept mail bags from Manchuria neither a mails from friendly administrations carried in transit. is doubtful whether such an' attitude is in agreement with the international obligations undertaken by China, when joining the Union Postale Universelle. And the fact that England, Prance and Germany continue to send mails via Siberia Wwould show that these administrations are not holding the same view that China has on the matter.
Anyhow, for the time being, the mostly concerned about
Tourees which. should be' well "In-missing ma rom which they aye.
formed, some 2,000 bags appear to have been accumulating at Shai haikuan; have these bags been re. forwarded now via Manchuria and Japan? If really the Chinese Postal Administration is unwilling to make any move to ascertain the fate of have mally, would it not Formation. from. "the " Japanese sible to get some precise in-'Authorities; they would certainly be nest appreciated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.