HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
APPENDIX I.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION
* Antigua "Argentine Republic
Ascension
te dustralia, Commonwealth of (including New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tas- mania, Victoria, Western Australia) *Austria-Hungary and Au
strian Post Offices in the Levant
Bahamas
Barbados
Bechuanaland Protectorate (including Francistown, Gaberones, Kanye,
Lake Ngaini, Lobatsi, Macloutsie, Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepclole, Palachwe, [Khamastown], Ra- moulsa, Shosong, and Tati River)
✔ Belgium and Belgian
Congo
* Benadir (Italian Colony) * Bermuda
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Bolivia
* Bosnia-Herzegovina
's Brazil
**British
•
East
Africa
Protectorate (including
Uganda)
's British Guiana
*British Honduras
• British
(Papua)
New
Guinea
British North Borneo
'■British Somaliland
*Bulgaria
☛ Cameroons
**Canada (Dominion of“) * Cayman Islands
**Ceylon
*Chili
China
☛ Chosen (formerly Corea)
Colombia, Republic of Congo, including Black
Point, Mayumba and Nyanza *Costa Rica a b
Crete a
■ Cuba a
Cyprus
Danish Colonies, viz.:-
St. Croix, St. John, and *St. Thomas
*Denmark (including Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland)
*■ Dominicu
• Dominican Republie (San
Dominica)
* Ecuador
*Egypt
"Eythre (Italian Colony)
Ethiopia, Empire of
Falkland Islands
Fanning Islands
Fiji Islands
**France
* French Colonies, viz. :—
Algeria, s Martinique,
¿Guadeloupe and depen-
dencies, French Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependencies, Angwey, Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Whydah | (also Sette Cama and Assinie), ** Dahomey, Congo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, * Mauritania,
• Réunion, French Som- aliland, Madagascar,
New Caledonia and de- pendencies, **St. Pierre- et-Miquelon, the French portion of the Low Archi- pelago, and the French Establishments in India (Pondichéry, Chander- nagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanaon), Annam, sCam- bodia, Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Establishments in Mor- occo, viz., Casablanca, El-Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez, Larache, Mazagan, Moga- dor, Rabat, Saff, and Tangier, and Society Islands, and French Post Offices in China and in Turkey, * Indo-Chin", and Indo-Chinese Post Offices in China Gambia
Germany
German Colonies viz.:— Caroline Islands, Ma- rian Islands (except Guam), Pelao Islands,
Marshall Islands, New Guinea (portion of), *¿Sa- moa, Togo Territo, in- cluding Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and sterritory in South West Africa, viz., Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country, and Southern portion of Ovambo;also sBagamoyo, and & Dar-es-Salaam, * Lindi and Tanga in East Africa, German Establishments in Mo- rocco, viz., Casablanca, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra- bat, Saffi and Tangier, German Post Offices in 8 China and in Turkey.
* Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Protectorate
's Gold Coust
*sGreece (including the
Ionian Islands)
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala
**Hayti **Herzegovina
's Holland, or Netherlands a 8 Honduras Republic of (including Bay Island) Hongkong
8India, British (including
■ Aden and its depe, den. cies and all places outside British India where there are Indian post offices) **Italy and the Italian Post
Office at Tripoli, Bengh azi, & Durazzo, 8 Janina, *Sentari in Albania
* Italian
*
Colonies - viz., Erythrea and Benadir Jamaica
Japan a, and Japanese Post Offices in China and
Karen Lagos
** Liberia
• Luxemburg
■ Maltaandita dependencies Marquesas Islands
·
'8 Mauritius and its depen-
dencier
> Mexico u * Montenegro
Montserrut *Netherlands, orHolland a NetherlandsColonies, viz: -* Dutch Guiana (Sur- inam), a, Curacoa and dependencies, viz.:-Bo- naire, Aruba, the Nether- lands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, »Java, a, Madura, a, 8 Sumatra, a, ¿Celebes, u, Borneo (except North- west part) a, Billiton, Archipelago of Banca, u, Archipelago of Riouw, u, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok,
Sumbawa,
Floris, and the South- west part of Timor), «, *the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North- west part of New Guinea (Papua) a
* Nevis *Newfoundland
New Zealand (including *Cook or Hervey and Palmerston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki and Penrhyn (Tongar- eva) Islands
* Nicaragua
Nigeria (Southern) *Norway
*
Panama, Republic of
* Papua
* Paraguay
*
Patagonia
* Persia
*
Pern * Portugal,
*s
including *Azores and 'Madeira PortugueseColonies viz:-
Goa and its dependencies (Damao and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verde Islands and dependencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Muculla, Mussera and Is- land of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with
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the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Delagoa Bay, and Mozambique st Rhodesia (Southern)
**Roumania
*
* Russia and Russian Post Offices in China, viz., at Pekin, Tientsin, Chefoo, Shanghai, Hankow, and Russian offices in Turkey St. Helena
* St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
* St. Vincent, West Indies *Salvador
* Sarawak
Servia **Seychelles a **Siam
# Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands Pro- tectorate (including
Shortland Island) **Somaliland Protectorate 8 South Africa, Union of
(including Cape Colony, Natal and Zululand, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Basutoland, British Bechuana and, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Griqualand West, Little Namaqualand, St. John's River Territory, Transkei, Tembuland, aud Walfisch Bay) *Southern Nigeria **Spain (including Balearic
and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies, viz. :—
Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies, and the Spanish Establish- ment at Arcila, in
Morocco
*Straits Settlements and
. Labuan ** Sweden **Switzerland * Tahiti
Tobago
*8 Trinidud
• Tunis
Turkey
*British Agencies in European and Asiatic Turkey, Jaffa, Jerusalem,- Baghdad, Bussorah (Bus- rah), and Koweit
* Turke lslunds
and
* United Kingdom
British Post Offices in' Morocco and in Turkey and in China
• United States of America 8 United States Colonies,
viz.:- 8 Hawaiian (or) Sandwich) Islands, Por- to Rico, Philippine Is lands, "nd Guam (Marian Islands)
* Uruguay
Venezuela
* Virgin Islands
Zanzibar
• The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, etc., is prohibited in these countries marked thus *. Uncut diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the United States, and unmounted precious stones can be sent to Belgium. Gold and silver jewellery is subject to customs duties. Includ ing Mashonaland and Matabeleland. • Included in Reply Coupon System.
a Does not exchange reply coupons which have not been stamped by the issuing office.
¿ Does not accept as valid at the time of settlement reply coupons which its own Officers have omitted to date' stamp at the time of issue.
NOTE-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics.