Nov. #1.
Yesterday Shanghai discovered what it was to English mail jain after another of those long waits to which it has been accustomed now for so many months.
In February this. Journal expounded the reasons for the virtual closing of the Siberian and Dairen route for European corre pondence with Shanghai, although Hongkong and Manila were still able to end and receive letters by it. Tk expressed the hope that ingenuity might be able to cir-cumbent the political obstacles to the removal of a ban which 0 adversely affected the resident in China pos jing friends oF: business connections in Europe. Ingenuity is at although this journal's Peking' si fault correspondent, in a despatch plainly intimated that,|speak, resumption of the postal communication between China and Manchuria had received atten-Hon.
If friendly sympathy and exhortation from Shanghai can be of any assistance in stimulate nig action in that direction, they ate to be had for the askin: The public has been patient. has been. mystified as well. The Chinese Government had rightly given to the International Postal Union in 1982 notice the abnormal circumstances governing the seizure of the Chinese Post Ofices in Manchuria by the Japanese Army and sequent absorption of the ganisation in the Manchoukuo Administrat ion. the Yet, growing inconvenience of the cessation of the carriage of Eyropean mails by way of Manchou li and Dairen came to rank a3 a grievance in Shanghai and other parts of China, it was gradually, revealed that the Chinese Post Offices were quite prepared, at any rate. to deliver mails received from Europe by: that route.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.