The Archive · 1935

Hsinking, Dee. 15

The Japanese-Manchoukuo postal treaty, first step in the relinquishment of Japanese extraterritorial rights 1 The Empire, will be signed here on Dec, 26 by Gen. Jiro Minami, Japanese Ambassador to Hsinking and concur-Fently Commander-in-chief of the Kvantung Army, and Mr. Chang Yenching, Manczoukuo's foreign minister.

The Manchoukuo State Council will study, the document, providing for the transfer of postal administration in the South Manchuria Railway zone tke new State, on Dee. 17. The Japanese Privy Council will consider it in Tokyo the following day. The agreement will come into force on Jan. 26, a month after it is signed.—Rengo. etiquette having been dwelt upon unti! they cannot b" forgotten.

Point duty ig eMiciently carried out by the traffic officers, who signal with their batons in the day time, and green and red lights at night. "What would strike a stfenger as being] most peculiar is "Trafic is never libeld up to let pedestrians cross the street, the officers devoting them-elves entirely to keeping motor cars from colliding at street intersections."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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