To the Editor of the "Norm-Cumwa Dany News"
Sin—In the hope that the record~ Ing of a complaint in the columns of a Widely read journal will result in some much needed improvement in communication between North China and Europe, 1 would sk you to be {good enough to publish this brief I {fer in your correspondence columns.
During the last six months T have Gespaiched several loiters to Englan' by air mail. In each T have marked the covers in accordance with the instructions contained in the Post nail notices "and. have personally Visited the Post Omce (head ome) Where the letters have been weighed, the necessary postage stamps purchased and axed and the covers handed over the counter for despateh by' the particular vessel stated in ihe maul "notices oe the connecting Derpite these precautions, the let. ters have not reached their destination in'due time and have been as Jong en route as. letters sent vie 'Suez, Thus, in $0 far as my experi. fence' goes, the air mail service from Shanghai appears. to be a, miserable failure, I moy add that others with whom I have discussed the matter have been forced to. the same conclusion as a result of their own exerlences with the service.
Considering that the alr mall post. age rates that I have paid have been approximately ten times the excess. sively high rates for ordinary letter pest, and-in view of the fact that the Siberian route for homeward mait not available, one might reasonably expect that the alr mail service would bbe something more than a fare ACN. Shanghai, Nov. 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.