Shanghai, May 26.
POSTAL communication with the Shanghai hinterland is rapidly returning' to normal and by the first week in June should be on what is practically a pre-hostilities schedule, the "North China Daily News" -learned yesterday, Hangchow is now the subject of final negotiations, it is understood, while arrangements have been fully completed for the restoration of postal facilities from Shanghai to Soochow, Wuhu, Wusih and other cities in the Shang. hai-Nanking area, Postal matter for these cities will [China sti in steamship communes be accepted on and after June 4. It tion with Shanghai, as without a large proportion of these men back is expected that it will be possible maintain a dally service to all lat work the Hangchow post offices cities and towns along the railways, Jeannot expect to operate on any-'The position vis a vis Hangchow 1s [where near a normal basis.
On the arrival of these men in not quite so bright, but there is every indication that this city, too, Jshanghal, arrangements will be made will" be put into postal touch' with Jfor them' to proceed in' batches to Shanghai again in the very near Hangchow and other post offices in future, the district which may" be opened, jand service will then soon get' back, Mr, V, W, Stapleton Cotton, Brit if not to normal, at least to a smooth Ish Commissioner of Posts in the working basis, Disteict of Chekiang, has returned to Shanghai after a four of the area Present Conditions normally under his control, It is Postal conditions in China today understood that he has completed jate actually working far more the ublic of the arrangements neces-smoothly and efficiently than most. sury for re-opening the post offices people would believe or expect, takin the Hangchow area and that It jing into consideration the' fluctua should be "only a matter of time" fons fu the battle-fronts: and the before the postal service is resumed, Jeonstant moving around of the varl-Part of the delay, incidentally, is Jous fighting zones, caused by the fact that most of the Repudiating the idea that a large star of the Chekiang section of the portion of China was now without Chinese Post OMice is at the moment postal facilities, Mr. "A, Df, Chapelain, fu the interior of China, on. the Director of Posts in the Chinese Post Chinese side of the battle-front, It JOfce, Shanghai, yesterday. sald:—will be necessary for these employees "The malls go through to every part to proceed immediately to one of the of China, except, of course, where several coastal "ports in South Limited Traffic On Railway Shanghai, May 26, Conditions on the Nanking-Shang-hal Railway were observed Reuter's correspondent on a trip from the former capital ina Diesel~ engined coach, Except for the fact that it was run by a gasoline engine, the coach was of the same type as' those used fon many railway lines in Japan.
It carried armed Japanese soldiers as guards against possible attacks by Chinese guerillas, but the Journey While some of the stations near Nanking still bore their English names, others had had theirs painted out 'Ail the bridges on the railway had been blown up, those not destroyed by Japanese bombing having been dynamited by the Chinese during their retreat. Repairs, in some cases only temporary, had' been effected by japanese army engineers, Chinese coolies, working under the "super vision of Japanese soldiers, were busy. fat various points strengthening the permanent way.
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