Last month we were notified by the provincial postal authorities, that printed mail matter will be subject to extra charges, because of the very high cost of "transportation and the difficulty encountered therewith. It looks very much as if we shall now be unable to receive newspapers from the coast, until conditions improve. As a result, we are now entirely depending on whatever news our local Chinese papers conve About the middle of November I r ceived the "North China Hero! of October 12 and on December 23, 1 received that of October 26.
As I am writing this, the "Herald" of November 16, comes to hand. This seems to indicate that we may yet hope to receive the paper, but there are still several numbers missing which we hope will come before long. The Post Office has not charged extra postage on the "Herald," so 1 hope we may tasse it that the paper will come along if and when transportation is available. Frankly, it has not been at all reassuring to think that we should be entirely dependent on local Chinese papers for news of the outside world
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.