The Archive · 1940

Post Office Accepts Military Notes

Postal Orders issued in Japanese Currency lets, it is authoritatively learned. The military notes have been accepted for some time already by the Shanghai Post Office and branches of the Post Office in occupied districts for buying postage stamps.

Instead of mentioning the sums of Toney in Chinese currency in postal money. orders, sums in Japanese military notes can be mentioned and recipients will obtain also military Roles. The understanding between postal officials and Japanese provides that the new regulations should be carried out in Hankow and Kiukiang first. The sums in military notes allowed to be sent through the Post Office range from $20 to several thousand dollars.

An official of the Shanghai Post Offüce stated that the authorities were forced by circumstances to enforce the new regulations as japanese military men in occupied areas sometimes only possessed military notes which they wished to send to friends and relatives in other Occupied districts. The Chinese would not issue postal money orders against military notes, it was said.

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

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