The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-09
ACTIVITY OF CHINA
IN MANCHUnHA HAS AROUSED
 JAPANESE OPPOSITION.
Japan Refuses China Certain Pos tai Privileges to Which She 10 Entitled and ConnscAfed Mail
 Pouches

H
 Pekin, March S-China's activity to recover full sovereignty in Manchuria has aroused the Japanese to opposi- tion.
 Japan has raised the standard of her post offices, increased the effectiveness of her postal system, which is now one of the Japanese governments sps- oial installations of aggression and is harassing the imperial Chinese govern ment by such means as the follow ing:
 Japan refuses China certain postal privileges on the South Manchurian railways to which she Is entitled, has broken open Chinese mail bags, secret ly confiscating one mail bag and con- tents. and conducts a parcel post over her railways while refusing to carry the parcels of the Chinese post
 China has been aware for some time past that Japan was using her depart ment of communication to extend her authority in Manehuria. Japan substi- tuted for her military post when 1t was withdrawn at the time of the eva cuation complete postal establishment under a postal commander of the im- perial Japanese post who resides at Dalny. China's method of combating this aggression has been the re-estab- lishment of her own posts. which were .disorganized by the war. The number of post offices was increased from for ty three to eighty four and will be further increased to 150 by April 1908. China has not so far had the temerity to mention her natural rights in Man churia on account of the menace which the Japanese government holds over her. And since it Is impossible to oust Japan, China's only weapon is competition.
 Russia has been a party to Japan's success in her postal policy. The war fare between the Chinese and Japan csc postal services began immediately after the evacuation of Japanes and Russian troops. Shortly after that. China discovered that Japan and Russia had made a secret compact by which the imperial Chinese post offices was excluded from the through mall trafic between Europe and the east by way of Siberia and Manchuria.
 The malls from Europe, are received by the Japanese imperial post offices in the heart of Manchuria and are de- livered by the same post offices to ad- dresses in Chinese cities. Russia claimed the right to ignore China in this matter because China was not q member of the International Postal Union. Japan reciprocated Russia's de- livery of European mails by delivering all European bound mails to her. China then notified the postal union officers at Berna that she would come into the union at the next congress which meets in 1911. She has since been seeking . modus operandl with Japan that would safeguard her sovereign postal and telegraph rights. In January, Ja- pan submitted preliminary proposals and a scheme for a postal convention. Tt waa rAGaFdA6 frnnnAaihiA in itH conditions but was submitted to the foreign board for discussion. Tn it Japan asks for, the concession not only of her present postal and other com munications in Manchuria but for tht enactment Into permanent rights of certain privileges over the Chinese in- perial railways in Manchuria and China proper which she has held by grace for the period of the Boxer troubles. Japan's exactions, will open the way or a demand for similar priv ileges from other powers.