ร
mecessary
off dust on
31672
Gove ref to 31672
actio
Usingenant's
Say
Yat
Ra
has
taker
been
as Legards
H. K.
whatter proposed
W. H. W.
but not
regand
quoting Registered No.542366
Address reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office,"
The Sgs.
world
be glad to how
ما
Concurs
1
To arrangements
1.
com.
Add Nat
effect forth with
is concerned
if so, Key might
ad
Nat.
car.
as
system
Come
into
Leg and
from 4.4
Commence
"
Vo
for
new
میز
will
received
adeft cauf
being sent
Con.
to H. K.
when
his reply
when
add
also
non couff
Are
Sama
tima
be rernible
Kat
sent by Ne
I Wilson
Same
at
Па
subject it will both be
should
Jes route.
804 14/12.
Any obsons
Harding
H
Q.1.4 13/12
schink not
MCollins
? As
크게
16712
proposed
the b
A.1.5779/12
B&C
Sir,
GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,
1 December 1910.
со
37902
12 12 10
205
With reference to your letter of the 14th of last month, No. 31672/1910, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Postmaster General sees no objection to the arrangements proposed for the inclusion in the Mils sert by the route of Siberia of non-confidential des atches exchanged between the Colonial Office on the one hand and the Governor of Hong Kong and the Commissioner of Weihaiwei on the other
hand.
Correspondence can at all times be sent from this Country to Hong Kong or Weihaiwei, or in the rever se direction, more expeditiously by way of Siberia than by any other route; but it will of course be desirable to send both confidential despatches and bulky documents as hitherto
by the route of Suez.
Some few cases have occurred in which it may prove that registered letters containing remittances sent by the route of Siberia have been tampered with, but it camot be stated at what stage of the transit they were so treated. It is not thought that these irregularities, which are compara- tively unimportant both in number and frequency, need be regarded as an obstacle to the despatch by the Siberian
Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL
OFFICE.
•
route