The Archive · 1938

Imperial Air Mail London-Shanghai Query

To the Editor of the "Nowmn-Cuina Dairy News"

'Sm—Your correspondent, W. Bowasy, states that he has' received letter' from England in fifteen days {to Hongkong by air and thence by sea to Shanghai. He asks whether this 1s not a record within recent months, On. October 19 T received an. air mail letter which had been posted at Hastings, England, at 9. pin. on October 7. Time taken in transit, not more than 12 days.

My reply to the above letter, posted here in the afternoon of October 24, is scheduled for delivery in London on, November 3, Lo, only 10 days.

Shanghai, Oct. 26.

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

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