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External envelope addressed:-
A
S
E
per Aki Maru via „merica.
583
C.O
49577
RECE
REGE 28 OCT 15
Messrs. J.T.Vervlot and Company
Rotterdam,
Holland.
endorsed "H.Hinzpeter, Shanghai."
Postmark "Shanghai, June 9th."
Internal envelope addressed;-
Herrn. Otto Küster,
941 Werderstr,
Harburg, Elbe,
Germany
and endorsed as above.
The envelope contains a picture postcard of the
German Post Office at Shanghai and a photograph of the
staff; also a letter dated June 191o containing the
following passages of interest:-
Your long letter of the 15th January reached me
all right though not, as you expected, through the
American post. All letters, &c. despatched by post
for East Asia are carried on Ffm 9 and we receive
these direct in cardboard cases. Accordingly we also
only make use of cardboard cases on Ffm S. Unfortunate-
ly our route via America is likely to be lost; the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company are proposing to give
up their Journeys to the East in order to take the
coast traffic through the Panama Canal, San Francisco,
New York. This will be a hard blow for us Germans
in the far East. The Pacific Tail Steunship Company
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