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Singapore and Hong Kong) and offers to place a few of our men
in your Shanghai Post Office,
Semi official of 28th March again attempts to repudiate
the Hong Kong territorial rate and offers to place a couple of
"trustworthy foreigners in your Shanghai Agency under your
Postmaster so as to make all go fair and straight and we can have
a Marine Sorter on your English Mail Steamers." Replied to by
letter No.296 dated 3rd May. Hong Kong territorial rate a sine
qua non either at Hong Kong or Shanghai
sea or land rates
charged that the Colony paid for instance letters to Aden from
Shanghai would simply pay, the Hong Kong territorial rate of francs
1.90 and the sea rate of 14 francs. Returned thanks for offer
(whilst declining it) of placing postal employees of China
in the British Post Office at Shanghai. Despatch No.84 from
Peking dated 20th May China considers the existence of the
Shanghai British Post Office a necessity would forward its
mail matter north or Foochow though Shanghai and south of
Wenchow through Hong Kong.
Admits right of territorial rate but in the Union a
distinction is drawn between closed mails and mails "a de-
convert" refers to Article 4, Section 3, 222, b, wants to know what