The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-09
CHINESE RUDELY
SHOWED ASIDE
Has No Rights in Manchuria
Japan Is Bound to
Respect.
ABUSE OF POSTAL SYSTEM
RUSSIA A PARTY TO SUCCESS OF
THE JAPANESE.

Pekin March 9.-Chna's activity TO
recover full sovereignty in Manchuria
has aroused the japanese to opposition.
postal officers, increased the effective
ness of her postal system. which is one
Of the Japanese governments special
instruments of aggression, and is
harassing the imperial Chinese post by
such means as the following: Japan re-
fuses China certain postal privileges on
the south Manchurian railways to which
she is entitled, has broken open Chinese
mail bags, secretly confiscated one mail
bag and contents, and conducts a par
cells post over her railways, while re-
fusing to carry the parcels of the Chi
nese post.
Trying to Compete.
China has been aware for some time
past that Japan was using her depart
ment of communications to extend her
authority in Manchuria. Japan substi-
tuted for her military post when ii was
withdrawn at the time of the evacua-
ton complete postal establishment
under postal commissioner of the inn
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 postoffices was increased from forty
three to eighty-four and will be fur
ther Increased to $50 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 GUST
Japan, China'S only remaining weapon
is competition.
Russo-Japanese Compact.
Russia has been a party to Japan's
success in her postal policy. The war
fare between the Chinese and japanese
postal services began Immediately aft
er the evacuation of the Russian and
Japanese troops. Shortly after that
China discovered that Japan and Russia
had made a secret compact by which
the imperial Chinese pOstoffice was ex-
cluded from the through mail traffic
between Europe and the East by way of
Siberia and Manchuria. The mails from
Europe are received by the japanese
imperial pOstOffice in the heart of Man
churia and are delivered by the same
postoffice to addresses in Chinese cit
les. Russia claimed the right to ignore
China in these matters because China
lill6TIldllOIldI
postal union Japan reciprocated Rus
Sia's delivery of European mails bv de-
iivering all European bound mails to
her. China then notified the postal
union office at Berne that she would
come into the union at the next con-
gress which meets in 1911.
Chinese Seek Modus Operandi.
She has since been seeking a modus
Operandt with Japan that would safe
guard her sovereign postal and tele-
graph rights. In January Japan sub
mitted preliminary proposals and a
scheme for postal convention. 1t was
regarded as impossible in its condi-
tons, but was submitted to the foreign
board for discussion. In it Japan asks
for the consolidation not only of her
present postal and other communica-
tons in Manchuria, but for the enact
ment into permanent rights of certain
privileges over the Chinese imperial
railways in Manchuria and China prop
er which she has held by grant from
the period of the Boxer troubles. ia
pans exactiOns, if successful will open
the way for demand for similar privi-
leges from other powers.