It is gratifying to learn from the local postal authorities that there Is Jsome misapprehension. in the cable from London regarding the irreg-Ularity of the Siberian mails. The situation is not quite so bad as it is made out and from all indications the Siberian. route is functioning much better than for many months. A reader wrote in highly pleased tones of the quick receipt of a letter from "England in nineteen' days, portending. the return to the "good, old days." Instances the past week or two have shown even better transit' times, seventeen days being record-one case which actually beat the air mail, possibly owing to some confusion in ¢atching the right steamer to complete the air mail Jconnection® European mails are being received vie Mukden and Dairen, and also via Vladivostok and Japan, but, Jas the postal authorities point out, the Japan-Vladivostok service is only Jonce in ten days, business not warranting 4 more frequent service. The Dairen service, is, of course, much more frequent and accounts for the jauick deliveries which are beginning 10 make the air mail route via Saigon and Singapore flot as advantageous it used to be in contrast to formerly unsatisfactory 'Siberian' service Which caused much protest in local business circles. To Europe no improvement is to be reported, mails being forwarded via the Pacific or Suez, the Siberian route being unavailable pending the solution of the dim cult problem of Chinese relations with Manchoukuo.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.