China, - quite rightly, frequently ukes credit to herself for the success with which she overcomes enormous distances and all sorts of peril and hardship. in distributing mail letters throughout the country. The Chinese Post OMlce Report ives a glimpse of the amazing variety of transport yoked to the service of the Chinese mails, Evidently China will have to Took to her laurels. The other day} the course of a broadcast from London expounding the work of the Generat Post OMlce two gentlemen from Scotland were given the mierophotte, Mr. Campbell of Inverness and Mr. Cameron of K: rkwall, and they, plained how when the G.P.O. has with its world elephone service, its Imperial Airways air mail Tiners, its London Postal Tube railway, and its 700 letters a minute automatic stamping machine, Scotland can still show the world something. The mail train which leaves the civilization of Euston for the wildness of the North takes the bags through the dangers of the Grampians to the shores of the Moray Firth. Whereas ess than two years ago letters from Inverness to Kirkwall took 2¥ days to find delivery, the aeroplane has intervened to make the journey accomplishable Ina fow hours. But when the mails have reached Kirkwall, as Mr. Cameron explained in his delightful Doric, there are more difficulties and dangers to overcome. The other Orkney Islands cannot be reached except by boat, fand Kirkwall has to distribute the consignment received from the sero-plane to the various hamlets dotted About on the islands to which it the principal town.
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