The situation regarding the accumulation of London and other European mails at Manchuli seems still obscure. One fact is clear as will be understood by anyone who is regularly receiving a newspaper from England: the mails despatched from London on July 22 up to August 5 both dates inclusive have not yet come to hand, although mails and newspapers dated August 6 to August 31—again inclusive—have been safely received here. The responsibility obviously does not rest with the Chinese Post Office. Statements in the news columns have shown that the postal officials in Shanghai have done their best to indicate to London and Moscow the paps in their receipts. It rests really with the despatching offices to locate the missing mails and ensure their early transmission to their respective destination. From Japanese sources it is learned that the mails still at Manchuli amount to several thousand bags. The matter is of sufficient importance for the strongest representations to made to the London General Post Office by those in touch with that admirable institution, especially as it is understood that it has been assured by Moscow that transmission to Shanghai by the Siberian route is still practicable.
General Chiang Kai-shek is holding a conference in Kuling with generals who have been engaged in the anti-Red drive in Kiangsi, The Minister of War has received a report from Kiangsi that the Red stronghold south of Sunwu, in the south of the province, has captured by the 8th. Kuangtung Division.
The arrival of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau and his companions on their flight round the world, adds to the list of distinguished airmen who have visited Shanghai. More particularly, however, does it emphasize the growing importance and Mr. Sun Hsueh-tseng, a Kiaochow Customs officer, received serious knife wounds in an attack at Tsingtao on September 24. Several suspects, Japanese, have been arrested and handed over to the Japanese consular authorities there.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.