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agreeing on the 9th of April, that when a regular postal service was established, they would have recourse to the assistance of foreign employes, and that they would gladly avail themselves of French advice in the selection of the necessary staff.
At the present moment a Frenchman, Monsieur Piry, who holds the rank of a Commissioner of Customs in the service presided over by Sir Robert Hart, is at the head of the postal department, and there is no doubt that he has been in constant communication with Monsieur Dubail, who by his appointment as Inspector General of Posts would like to see the fulfilment of a scheme launched by himself five years ago when he was Charge d'Affaires in Peking.
Postal business is at present carried on in the offices at the various ports of the Imperial Maritime Customs, and I fancy that it was hoped that Sir Robert Hart would be willing for the independent service to make use, at least at first, of the same premises. The Inspector-General has however stated that a postal service independent of the Customs must expect no assistance whatever from his department, and it seems likely that the scheme will fall
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