28 JULY 1939, Page 6

Not long ago I enumerated in this column some of

the many " news-letters " which those who desire to know the views of some individual or group on current events have offered to them weekly. I think I should add one to the list —the China Air Mail—issued fortnightly from Hong-kong by that eminently sane economic and political writer Mr. Guenther Stein, whose name will be familiar to all regular readers of The Spectator. The letter, which is sent by air, appears to take about ten days in transit, so that its readers are kept reasonably up-to-date on aspects of Chinese affairs other than those dealt with day by day in the newspapers.