The operation of the postal system in, North China, in the ureas under Japanese control, is giving rise to some. concern. Whatever the Feason may be the fact is that the delivery of Shanghai newspapers is deteriorating to such extent that some readers complain of only Feceiving copies of their papers once or twice 'a month on the average since September last, though those destined for the various embassies and legations are duly delivered after a slight delay. "The postal authorities in the north, for obvious reasons, are unable to divulge informs tion regarding the working of the postal system, but from various Chinese and Japanese sources it is learned that some tne: ago a Japanese colonel attached to the Kitas Army\ Special Affairs Department visited postal officials and informed them that for the future he would be giving orders regarding postal business in North China. Tiree or four Japanese experts, called either directors or advisers, have been installed ju the Peiping and Tientsin post offices and have taken over a large part of 1 executive work. Nanking appointed official SUN retain their titles and some of their original authority, but it is reported that there has been no deGnition of the division authority which occasionally leads to dimeuities, Also in these two offices a fair number of Japanese have been installed in the various departments, in addition to which eight censors from the Japanese military police are also functioning. So far as can be ascertained, up {o the present the newly-established Provisional Government has mode no move towards taking over the post offices in the area over whicn they have assumed jurisdiction, though all offices have been obliged to fly the five-barred flag since December 1
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