CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
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Goverment House, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1904.
Sir,
In accordance with the request contained in paragraph 2 of your Confidential Despatch of the 22nd June, 1904, on the subject of a proposed Postal Convention with China, I have the honour to inform you that the draft of an Agreement with the Chinese Imperial Post Office, of which I enclose a copy, is now being forwarded to the Chinese Postal Authorities for their concurrence and that it is proposed, if that concurrence is obtained, to execute the Agreement.
2. A proposed partial Postal Union between Hongkong and China formed the subject of communications between the Postmaster-General, Hongkong, and the Postal Secretary at Peking, and of correspondence between the Postmaster-General of Hongkong and the Secretary to the General Post Office in London in the years 1900 and 1901, and resulted in the London Post Office suggesting that certain stipulations from Peking should be acceded to and that the Agreement to be entered into should adhere as closely as possible to the one that had previously been concluded between the French and the Chinese Imperial Post Offices.
3. The negotiations for the Agreement were suspended...
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
&C...