Editor of the News"
Sin—From various sources, 1 hav been given to understand that a sec tion of the Shanghai Public (a small one, I hope) is under the impres that we hold here a Jarge accumu lion of n which hai been not delivered This is entirely erroneous. We have no accumulation of mail in Shanghai; all we receive are delivered regularly.
The only mails we have, which are not delivered, are mails address d to shops which are boarded up or closed, or to addressees who have placed their respective keys underneath their doors and departed "cooler" places than Sha:
There have been delays caused to which before arrival were arried to Hongkong and Japan can ure the public in general "Foreign Businessman" particular that we are as anxious to deliver the mails to the public they are to receive them.
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