Development of motor-bus services, {inerease in air-mails, sucoesstul work: ing in spite of floods and droughts and the establishment of telegraph Feceiving agencies are some of the features of the annual report on the Chinese Post Office for the year ended June 30, 1934, The Postal Service in China is to many a miracle seeing that it carries letters through the length: and breadth of an enormous territory and its servants have to face conditions of all degrees of severity and hardship. The mails are carried by rail, air, motor-transport and yet there are courier lines tolalling nearly 225,000 mulles, The total number of articles posted for transmission during the year under [view was 787 million articles includ~ ing nearly 3% million sent by air mail. This represents an increase of 48 million on the previous ye: These and other fascinating statistics are to be obtained from the record. which shows that whatever political or other troubles may allier China, the Post Office manages to perform allotted task modestly and effec tively.
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