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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
France and some other countries the compensation payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 fb. is limited to 15 francs.
220.-No compensation is payable for the loss or damage of an uninsured parcel sent to or from any British possession or Foreign country other than those mentioned above. 221.-The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 95, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are applicable
INSURANCE OF PARCELS
222.-Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-
Aden (via Calentta) Ascension (via London)
Bahamas Barbados Bermuda
do.
do. do.
British East Africa :-
Kilindini, Mombass
Laum only (via London)
(via
British Guiana
London)
British Somaliland
Burmah (via Calcutta)
Algeria and Carsina
Austria Hun gary
Azores and Madeira Belgium Beyrouth
Bosnia Herzegovina Cameroons & Togǝ Chili China
China Jap unes : Post
Offices)
Constantinople Corea (via Japın)
UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS
Ceylon (Direct)
$ Cyprus (via Loudon) Falkland Island (as far as Stanley only) (via London}
Gambia (via London) Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac. era. Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London)
Cabi
India (via Calcutta) Jamaica Lagos (via London) Leeward Islands do. Malta
Mauritius
Newfoundland (via L’don) New Zealaud (via Loudou) Nigeria (Southern) (via
London)
Nyassaland Protectorate Salonica Seychelles
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Danish West Indies Denmark
Datch Gaivna Data East Indies
Datch West Iulics Enador Egypt
Either
Formosa
France
Germany
Holland
Italy (via France)
Do. (via Belgium)
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Japan
Kirafuto
Kachau
Liberia
Laixemburg
Manchu ingJapanese
Post Offices) Montenegro
Norway Portuga
St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone do.
i Straits Settlements
(Direct)
Tobago (via London) Trinidad do
United Kingdom (via
Gibraltar)
Windward Islands:
Grenada, and St. Vincent (via London)
St Lucia
do.
Zanzibar (via ('alcutta)
Roum mia
Russia ( including Finlan, D
Servia
Smyrna
Sweden
Switzerland via France!
Do. (via Belgium) Tunis
¦ Turkey(Austrian Post Offices) United States
INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS
223. -Parcels for the undermentioned places can be insured :-
COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)
Austria-Hungary
and leeland
Belgium
France
Denmark, Faroe Islands
Germany
Holland Luxemburg Norway
REGULATIONS
Portugal Sweden
Switzerland
224. -The fee (which is for insurance and registration) must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which the sender must hand in at the same time with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting ; they must not be placed on the cover or label of the parcel. A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured parcel.
225. -No parcel can be insured for more than the sum set in the list following Rule 256 against the name of the country or colony to which it is addressed, or for a sum above the real value of the contents. A parcel of which the contents have no saleable value may, however, be insured for a nomnial sum in order to obtain the safeguards of the registration system. Over-insurance is a bar to compensation.
* No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing_liquid ↑ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Inebolí, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Sant. Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi. § No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery. Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Each Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The senders must supply declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the grossweight of the Parcel.