Shanghai on March 2, bringing the London newspapers of February 16, thus, in spite of the trail of war from' Harbin through Mukden "to [Shanghai, the various postal or ganizations concerned have managed to keep Shanghai almost with-fin normal reach of Europe. The general public is not so unreasoning to accept thio feat as a. matt fof course. "It is inclined to. think that there is. something magical Jabout it, In the early days of the Prevent true some Ingeniois bat Indolent folk purposely left writing. their. weekly mails in the {ond belief that they sould have the splendid excuse of war-interrupted communications, They were ple ants, it ruefully surprised '2nd {that their calculations in favour indulging their epistolary" shortcomings were quite at fault. There fas been no magic but merely, the pertinacious devotion to duty of the Office an its afetals from the highest to the lowest. Let a tribute be paid to this sense of public daty and its very practical expression.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.