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connection with the arrangement entered into with Tokio that money orders issued in Japan on China where they have agencies: oftheir own will be paid by them and not at our agencies. Offices in Formosa and Ja’- pan still continue to draw on our offices at Shanghai and Ningpo and as the amount is now expressed in liong Kong dollars, the conversion into mexicans is only 95
of the latter to 100 of the former at the current mar- ket rate. Great dissatisfaction has been expressed by payees papers there at this arrangement, and in some cases pay ment has not been accepted,n further communication to Tokio on the subject will be necessary if no reply is received to our letter of the 29th.June.
The system of paying orders by the Japanese. Post Office is simple. They draw the amount 11. yen and payment is made in Japanese currency, on issuing orders however, they accept Mexican dollars at the cur-
rent rate.
As you have expressed a desire to know something of the postal work there, I beg to state that since my arrival I voluntarily gave daily assistance to Mr.Solly, as it was only too apparent to me that his staff was unable to cope with the work, especially on mail days. I was usually in the Post office from 9 to 2
6 p.m., the ordinary working hours, and from 8.30 to 10 P.M.or madl nights for the supplementary receipt of correspondence; this latter period is always the busi- est, as the business correspondence is always posted
at the last moment.
By the American, German, and French
packets the mails were got away in time but by the
British and Canadian packets we were hard pressed for time and had very little margin left to reach the
jetty to catch the tender. By the latter two packets
we had to wait for the closed mailbags from Ser