Address reply to "The Secretary, General Post Office,"
304 D. quoting Registered No...
Sir,
C. O.
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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
Rrd 12 NOV 03
November 1903.
MO
Referring to your letter of the 5th instant, No. 39607,
I am directed by the Postmaster General to forward to you
herewith a further copy of the circular letter issued by the
International Bureau of the Postal Union on the 5th of September
respecting the conveyance of mails to the Far East by the
Trans-Siberian route.
With regard to the question raised by the Commissioner of
Wei-hai-Wei, in the despatch of which you enclosed a copy, as
to the possibility of making that place a port of call for
steamers carrying mails to and from Shanghai in connexion with
the Siberian Railway, I am to acquaint you, for the information
of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Postmaster
General will not fail to bear the suggestion in mind. He does
not, however, at present see any prospect of being able to give
effect to the Commissioner's wishes. The arrangements for the
onward conveyance from Dalny of mails brought to that terminus
by the Trans-Siberian Railway rest entirely with the Russian
Authorities; and it does not seem likely that the Russian
der Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE.
steamers