Show MUCH or OF CHIN CHINA MAil CARREO I I I I ON rOOT Assistant Postal Director at Shanghai Tells of I I Crude Handling I I IMail I Mail is still carried sn on foot in I China and despite a remarkable improvement in in inthe the last twenty i years it is eons ons behind the mailot mailot mail mail- ot 01 Uncle nce Sam in modern I tation I That was the comment made mace by I A. A H. H Allen of Shanghai China as assistant assistant assistant as- as postal director of oE the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- Chi I nese mall service in Manchuria who vho arrived arrie in Salt Lake Wednesday Wednes day morning lie He is accompanied s 1 by Mrs Allen on a tour of the I United States and is stopping slopping atthe at atthe I the Hotel Utah 1 Mr Allen said that railroad facilities fa- fa a- a ln ht China never tal take I fa-I care car care of J the postal business There I arent aren't enough nough of them Soto So to give the great open places of Manchuria Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- I churia and the back countries amail a amail mail service the Chinese government government government govern govern- ment has devised postal transportation tation by foot The country is hone honeycombed combed with postal routes mere footpaths in which the couriers couriers cour cour- make their thirty miles a day at the average wage of seven American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean dollars per month According to Mr Allen Alien there are re postal regul regulations In ln China just as there are in this country The couriers carry the maximum of seventy-five seventy pounds of mail mall over their thirty-mile thirty ro route te There have never ne been any wage disputes or demands for higher wages The postal service until 1897 in China was c conducted by private companies but since that time the government has gradually absorbed I the small units and improved the tIle service Mr l Allen Alien said The mail mall department is almost entirely dl- dl dL- dL by foreigners a Frenchman I being head of the he service an Amer Amer- I ican second in charge and surrounded surround surround- ed with British post postal directors There is a Chinese ChIne Director of mails but he i lg i only a figurehead Mr Allen has the unique experienc experience experience of having been born In Shanghai China Chloa Hl His His His' father rather Ur Jr Y 1 J. J Allen Allan sailed to the orient in 1859 In a small sailing sail ng vessel vessel and was waS' one of the first Americans to toI I I venture Into Chinese waters in an anI I effort effort to to expand the United States trade After living most of his life in China Mr Allen returned to the United States and Was as educated at Em Emory 0 rl college Georgia He later I went back to China entered business business bustness busi bust ness and finally was appointed to I I the postal service sene |