No.56.
Sir,
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18 SEP 1911 August 16, 1911.
I have the honour to refer to Your Excellency's dea-
patch No.45 of the 5th instant on the subject of a pro-
posal to entrust the carriage of mail matter between
Hongkong and Canton to the Kowloon-Canton Railway, so soon
as it shall be open for through traffic, and asking whether
I see any objection to a possible delivery of the mails
to the Imperial Chinese Post Office.
In reply I have the honour to state that, insofar as
the mails for the non-Chinese mercantile community at
Canton are concerned, I would most strongly deprecate any
action of the nature inuicated, until the matter has been
His Excellency
Sir F.D.Lugard, G.C.M.G, C.B, D.S.O,
eto,
etc,
etc,
Governor of Hongkong.
discussed