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No.103.
General:
Sir,
Enclosure
COPY.
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Reap 20 SEP 19:
Inspectorate General of Posts,
Peking, 8th August, 1899.
I am directed by Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector
General of Chinese Posts, to acknowledge the receipt of your
despatch No.517 dated 19th July, and, in reply, to say that
as the proposals made in my despatch No.46 of 9th February
last, are distasteful to the HongKong Government, he now withdraws
them and will continue to act on the arrangement arrived at
two years ago.
The Postmaster General,
HongKong.
I have &c.
(Signed) J.A.Van Aalst,
Postal Secretary.