The Archive · 1937

Siberian Mails 'to Be Sent by Ship

Train Traffic Disrupted at Tientsin Owing to the disruption of train ame at Tientsin, malls via Siberia are being conveyed to Dairen. by ship instead of by the Shanghale Felping through express, according a information from the Post OMee, The express now only runs to as far a3 Tsinan, capital of Shantung, The last batch of Siberian malls was received "here on August 31, These reached Tientsin on July 26 and were delayed there by hostilities, No news was available at the Post Office on Aug. 4 as to fulure Incom-Ing Siberian mails, Letters to Tien {sin and Peiping are being accepted hero as usual.

Trains running between Shanghai and the interior were crowded. to capacity during the past few days.

was reported that many refugees had fled from Nanking to Shanghai, while Chapel and Hongkew residents, who could not afford to rent houses in the Settlement and' the French Concession, returned to their native homes, With the return of normal conditions at Taku, Jardine Matheson Ca, and Messrs, Butterfield & Swire announced on Aug. 4 that they were resuming their" Shanghai-Tientsin shipping services, Planes to Tientsin and Peiping are making 'Tsingtao and) Taiyuan the terminus of these services' respectively.

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