Decrease in Mail Matter Deficit Handled Showing Larger Again j The report of the Post Office fiscal year July 1, 1982, to June 30, 1993 just issued by the Directorate Gener:
Posts, records a decline in business over the previous year and a still further deficit in their operation.
'This is largely blamed on the loss of the Three Eastern Provinces and enol and, as the report states, this Joss made' the difference between a vast Increase of business and the re-grottable drop recorded. In addition fo these difeulties the bandit contions in Kiangsi, Hupeh and Hunan, with the trouble in Sinkiang, has caused the severance of communica tions "with these areas and " corresponding decrease in the carrying of mail matter.
The frst section of the general report follows:
The aggression in the Three Eastern Provines, recorded in the previous Report, and the subsequent seizure eho! are responsible for a continued decline in postal figures. The total of articles of mall matter posted has decreased by '98 millions, but the Three Eastern Provinces! alone accounted for 78 millions posted anhnually before the enforced evacuation by the Chinese Postal Administra on. As each article from that territory Was, normally, balanced by a cor-Fesponding sending from other parts of China, the total for the whole country would ave shown a striking Increase but for the aggression already referred to.
Business has been affected by the hostilities in North China, and the resultant uncertainty in all parts the country having trade relations with that area, several Postal estab~ Ushments in the war zone having to be closed. Banditry has, vnfortunate-1y, not ceased, and has bad a retard ing effect on postal progress notably in' Kiangs!, Huped, and Hunay. accordance' with the regulations calling for severance of communications with communist areas, a number of Postal establishments were withdrawn. Tu Sinkiang, unrest prevailed during the latter part of the year under review, iderable period the are territory thas been completely cut off from. approach by any direct route from. China and via Siberia, One of the greatest hopes for the future of the Post Office, and indeed for the nation, les in the activity in Toad building, which at the close of The Seal year hed reached to over 27/038. kilometres on which motor-vehicles could travel, over 6,000 kilometres of this having been opened in {the period now reviewed.
Continued development of airmail routes has lo be recorded, the Shang-hal-Pahsien (Chungking) line havin, been extended to Chenglu, Shanghal-Kaolan' (Lanchow) to Tihwa, while a new line from Shanghai to Peking Was Inaugurated. "Another route, from Bhanghai to Canton, was planned for early operation.
The policy of strict financial re-had necessarily to be owing to the
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