Hongkong, June 29, 'A. profit of nearly $2,000,000—an all time record—was obtained by the Hongkong General Post office during the past year, according to its annual report.
'There was a large increase in all the mails handled, and the balance fof revenue over' the expenditure charged against the department vote was, $1,048,410, The total weight of air mail ree ceived and despatched by all alr lines during the year was 499,989 1b, as compared with 8010 1b. in 1937 increase of 350/073 1b. required in connection with the Bmpire Air Mall Scheme and addition: Aransit charges incurred as a wener result ofa-general increase in the North China Export Control Extended Peiping, June 30, Comprehensive export, control in Worth China will go into effect on July 10, sources close to the "Pro visional Government" indicated today. Specified will be 300. varieties of goods, whereof 80 comprise 70 per ent. of the total amount of exports from North China, Outstanding among these 50 are: pig bristler, sausage casings, pelts, linseed, oat woo! and Boat Wool products, cotton, camel's hair, tomb's wool, copper articles, tin, reed snd straw manufactures Export bills against these goods will have' to be negotiated through the Federal Reserve Bank at the exchange rate of 1s, 2d, to $l.
Effective March 11, the same restrictions were imposed by the "Provisional "Government" on 12 articles "These were eggs and products; chestnuts; peanut oil; apricot Stones: "cotton seed, tobbaco. leat; srmicell and macaroni; coal; wool carpets; straw strands and. sall—Domei. section has already begun. Classified Jas_a state highway the engineering Bureau concerned are building Into a first-class road—Reuter, we When in Shanghai stay at the
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