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Hongking
to refor the result
I send copies of all
Carry.
it a
Hongkong, saying
decided that it
to
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ai
is
ti quable
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that, if
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it appears this
t to reduced
if the
the
in creased subsidy
the postal rates
to I; & that
1
Ay
g.P.0. lettor /42914) is correct,
existing agencies
a profiin at present ite
at a
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improbable that the reduction of rater night for effected with art causing
Hangking Prat Offices: actual loss to the
I nok how he gets at the estimate
of $20,000.
reduction of rates
7.0. tu 7871
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say
atter
with regard to
refer to letter from
that
no cetion
br taken to
fur E-sation's to answer that has
bren received.
o send copies of the deifatch to suggested above &
7.0. in writing
&
P.O. df.
? proceed
a-
All 2.
as proposed adding
red
that Mr b is dish to think
ら
that it wd, be better to work 193
gradually towards the abolition of these British Postal Agencies thin China, than to extend the system.
Then is an
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important political question at issue, whether we should multiply Strongthen a popularise the Torities! postal agencies at the treaty ports in "China, competing
with
& Multi-
$ growing
•plying foreign postal agencing, or whether We should do all we can to strengthen
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the Imperial Chinese postal administration which in in its infovey, byt & ferning Our firstal business gradually to it. San E. Sixtow is in favour of the to Comie. I would like to invite thrayh the D:0. a farther report from him after he has conferred with the dis Pr. Hart I I would like to get through the I.C
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London
q
R.
the China Aussciation in
Write to 7.0. accordingly
CRd
1 March
of foreign countries would Co-operate with
us
in
trengthening