The praiseworthy effort to bring [down airmail letter rates should not be allowed to overlook the fact that in China there is no subsidy of the air services. The charges made for airmail postage go entirely to the companies carrying the mails by air jand do not, therefore, accrue to postal revenues. Inquriries have failed fo obtain any light locally on the [proposal to carry airmails free of additional rates. If it were adopted then the matter might have to. be reviewed in that light. Generally it may be stated that ordinary postal rates for letters despatched to addresses overseas are governed by an International' convention which "prescribes that those charges should not be less than 25 gold centimes per unit of twenty grammes. The Chi nese Post Office, in this and other 'The carefully prepared state~ ment' of questions and answers emerging from the recent interview given by General Chiang Kal-shek to a Japanese journalist, may. be taken to indicate that' the Sino-Japanese entente has made good headway. General Chiang Kai-shek was careful to say nothing which could be interpreted as condoning certain past events. His emphasis was clearly on the future need for pacific understanding and' inter-ational amity. Yet it was also aparent that he recognized the force of circumstances and was inclined to base his appreciation of China's relations with Japan on a realist view of the situation. Signifleant Perhaps was the reference to the Sun Yat-sen polley with its development Of the pan-Asiatic theme, On that point there is probably more agreement between Chinese and Japanese statesmen than on others of more immediate import. This rapprochement will be welcomed generally. Nothing could retard the beneficent influences of reconstruction and rehabilitation in China more certainly than an obdurate refusal to perceive the implications of the close physical con acts between the two countries, Whether the opinion expressed in the interview have the complete endorsement of the respective governments matter on which time alone will give evidence. The fact remains that General Chiang Kal-shake seems hapily to have prescribed a reasonable Une of conduct for Sino-Sapan relationships,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.