The Archive · 1940

Business Grows

As time went on, goods other than medicines were thus sold and bought by mail. The business was soon developed in many parts of Fukien Kiangsi and even the Chekiang border. Postal parcels to contain Japanese goods have been sent io these places very often from Kulangsu. The monthly remittance in this connection to Kulangsu fr a districts in Fukien alani to and between $500,000

Chinese authorities have now enforced rigid regulations against mail "enemy" goods, resulting in many such cases being discov t smugglers have now change their method. They first send the goods to countryside districts where small agents of the Post Office work and from there they carry the goods n person to big cities for sale.

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

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