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which can be sent hence to places in China south of

Manchuria are letter packets and postcards;

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Postmaster General regrets that he is not in a position

to afford special facilities for the transmission of

plague serum.

It would seem from communications which have been

received from the public that an impression 25 current

that the parcel post viâ Siberia is as rapid as the

letter post. The Postmaster General understands,

however, that parcels are not conveyed across Siberia

by the Mail trains, but only by slower trains, and

that parcels for China proper sent by the Siberian

route would be about 12 days longer in transit than

letters.

(Signed)

I am &c.,

Matthew Nathun.