On behalf of the Generalissimo, r husband, Madame Chiang ex-val support of overseas Chinese and assured them that "we in China are striving to prove worthy of their unfailing cooperation and encouragement in defence of the land of our ancestor:
"At this moment," she concluded, "I also wish to thank the many for-consignment, it is believed. The Post Office expected more than was received via the Shanghai Maru and now looks for further large batches before the trans-Siberian mail situation will be up to date.
"Parcels Received Now The Post Office at the corner of North Szechuen Road and North Soochow Road is serving chiefly now as an administration building, where M. Chapelain and his skeleton staff are entrenched, and as a parcel post office. Outgoing parcels must be delivered to that office as the other offices on this side of Soochow Creek have their hands full with the other mails. The Vu Yuen Road office is acting as an emergency head Post Office for Shanghai at present, Since hostilities broke out and created confusion for a day or two while new mail arrangements were being made, the movement of mails has improved considerably. Two trucks leave daily, morning and afternoon with mail for Nanking and other inland destinations. At various points, the mail bags are. transferred to trains, With the improvement of the coastwise shipping service, the movement of mail between China ports where it can be trans-shipped to points all over the world, has also increased in speed.
Air mail letters are being carried on their first lap by truck or steamer to points where commercial planes are still in operation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.