COPY.
Enclosure 1.
254
TELEGRAM
RCC
C
1033
Rrat 15 XP 10
from the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong, to the
Secretary of State, London, dated 2n£. August, 1910.
Unfallen
Gherkin
Revitalize
Mispaying
Profestis
Edulcoren
Because
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To
Thi
Annual
Colony
Salmonet
Rendered
In
Pluoric
Silvergray
Theragain
Mispaying
Refroid
At
Agencies
From
Via
Hongkong
Siberia
Alejar
And
Phalaride
Lingueta
Overvaren
Twenty
Securities
Hongkong
Grammes
Plestiodon
Racingbell
Agencies
Entailing
And
Casate
Casate
Agencies.
I
In answer to your telegram 29th. July my Government cannot
accept proposal because retention of Military Contribution will
entail annual heavy losses to this Colony for services rendered
in foreign ports. Urge strongly that Military Contribution
should be remitted at Agencies and that postel rate from Hong-
-kong and Agencies via Siberia at present entailing heavy
losses should be raised to 10 cents one ounce Hongkong and 10
cents twenty grammes Agencies.