such expedient could be adopted to reopen the quickest and most direct postal route to and from Europe, The matter is not one in which forelgnjets alone are interested. To Chinese business men it is exceedingly inconvenient that communication with the [European capitals is now back in the "pow and arrow" stage. The actual Jpecuniary loss accruing from the virtual closure of the Siberian route must by this time be considerable Cannot the Government give serious attention to this matter and thus, in most practical way possible, reeve the Postal and Customs Department of an irksome duty in. the maintenance of the blockade which apart from the material loss involved, creates unnecessary irritation and heart-burning?
The whirling of time may bring ts revenges for Allahabad, one of the contro! points in the London to Melbourne Air Race. For various Feasons, into which it is not neces sary, at this distance, to enter, the glory has greatly departed from the mmcient City where Queen Victori historic proclamation to the people of India was made in 1858, Tt is si, with the more favoured' Lutknow, the joint capital of the United Provinees, but the Provincial Government, by virtue of a. policy started in the Governorship of Sir Harcourt Butler, has gradually withdrawn the "light of its. countenance—and its ofices—from. the City of Pundits, The Railway thorities have reduced its once great importance as a junction. 'It still has its vigorous University and its austere High Court "(Lucknow only Chief Court), "Now at" Bam: Faull, a little village on its outskirts, the big aerodrome has grown in' importance to which the early fights of Cobham, Brock and the rest gave good start. Recent developments may bring Allahabad again back to Prominence despite ite desertion by High Authority. The lovely Govern ment" Houge—vacant often for all but six weeks in the year—might once again find favour asa suitable Fest-house for important air officials,
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