has special reasons for wishing to see a working arrangement established to get rid of an convenience which is greatly felt by large sections of the popula-jon.
It is therefore with considerable fervour that attention is! drawn once more to this subject, The discussions between the parties in the North are expect: ed to take note of the actualities of the position while making due provision for safeguarding priniples on which- both naturally lay stress. It is fortunate that this point of view can be ex: pressed without blaming one side exclusively, From statements which have been coyly out, apparently, accurately framed, jit has been yethered hat some sort of responsibility lies on either side of the Great Wall. There are, of course, two or even more opinions regarding the political merits of the fundamental cause of the break in the Siberian mail routine. There seems to be no [reason why those opinions should any longer stand in the way of resuming that routine, although the feat will have to take those opposite opinions fully into account. At present mails from Europe wander unhappily round the inelement iciness of fore they can nation in Shanghai.
Letters to Europe have a great variety of route before them.—They can meander indignified. fashion through the Red Sen and the Suez Canal. They can be sent to jon and take the exciting Journey Paris.
They can pick up. the Netherlands it Mail at, Singapore or the Imperial Airways mail at Karachi. They can tra across the Pacific and then approach Europe by way of the Atlantic. But whatever their choice may be, the delay is inevitable and the smooth current of commercial correspondence is endangered. Possibly the telegraphs may gain slightly from this temporas tion but even there the benefit is doubtful. The telegraph flourishes on speedy standards which must in the long run deter the public from recourse to the telegraph. The. business man has deen long-suffering in all conscience. It is me that Governments, depend-1 largely on him for their ex-frication from the present depression, took active steps to restore his contact with facilities which have not even been destroyed but have been withheld by the vicissitudes of political disagreement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.