20012/11.
FOREIGN OFICS.
December
39411290
RECE
REGE 9 DEC 11
1911.
Your excellency:-
With reference to my note of August 28th. last,
I have the honour to inform you that I am now in possession
of the views of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and
tho Postmaster General upon the proposal of Your Axcellency' a
Goverment that the German Post Office at Canton should bo
accorded the privilege of transmitting letters to lion, kon;
at the same rates to apply in the case of letters sent
through the ¡ritish, French and Chinese Jost offices at that
Treaty Port, viz: Two cents per half-ounce.
I am informed that the existing postal concessions
have been granted for the following rucsons.
(a)
to the Chinese Post Office because it is the only
post office which conducts a service, and accepta letters
for delivery, outside the limits of the Treaty Forta; and
to the Fronch Post Office (which is in the French
(b)
xcellency
Count Setternich,
80..
80.
Bettlement