Addrese reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office,"
quoting Registered No378,273/08.
Sir,
係
C. O.
3086 580
AUG 35
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
17-August, 1903.
I am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, No. 28163,
enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong-Kong
on the subject of an announcement made by the Shanghai Banks
to the effect that they intend in future to forward their
correspondence for Europe by the Trans-Siberian route, a
course which will be detrimental to the interests of the
British Postal Agency at that port, inasmuch as the
correspondence and the revenue derived from it will be
diverted to the local Russian Post Office.
In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a communication
to the same effect had already been received here from the
Postmaster General of Hong-Kong; and I am to forward herewith
a copy of the reply which was sent to him on the 28th of last
Mr. Chamberlain will gather from that letter that
month.
this Department has had considerable correspondence on the
the Secretary of State,
COLONIAL
OFFICE.