First Steamer Mail Here in Next Few Days The resumption of postal communications between Shanghai and Hankow has encouraged the authori ties of the Post Office in Shanghai to also resume the operations ai thei branch office in Anking and s Shanghailanders will soon enjoy th? postal communication with the for capital of Anhwei which is now occupied by the Japanese.
While a British official of the Post Office is staying in Hankow to supervise the resumption work there the problem in Anking has to be tackled by two Japanese employees of the Shanghai Post Office who are already on their way to that great city.
The first Hankow mail singe the occupation of that city by the Japanese is expected to arrive in Shanghai in the next three or four days on a Japanese steamer which carried the first Shanghai mail to Hankow on January 2. Only light mail is handled. The light mail in this case includes ordinary letters, postal cards, registered and express letters, The Post Office is experiencing ditficulties in resuming postal service in the guerilla districts for Which assistance must be offered by the Japanese military. At present, howe ever, only three Japanese employees are working in the Post Office here. The 21 Japanese working in the same office are censors.
The Post Office has stopped sending parcels to Ningpo and Shaoshing on account of inconvenience of communication but small medical parcels can still be handled.
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