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Registered No..

44825.

Any further letter should bear this number and should be addressed to-

THE SECESTART,

GENERAL POrr Orion,

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, E.C. 1.

C.O

11710

7 March 1918.

Rec

Sir,

REO 8 MAR 18

With reference to your letter of the 28th of February

You last, No. 9423, transmitting a copy of a telegram from the

Governor of Hong Kong regarding an Anglo-Chinese Customs

Agreement, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint

you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that,

while generally speaking there would be an objection to

British ships being bound to carry foreign mails free of

charge, in the present instance the matter does not appear

to be of sufficient importance to make it necessary, so far as

the Post Office is concerned, to enter any protest against the

clause about free conveyance of Mails by steam launches which

it is proposed to insert in the Agreement.

Under Secretary of State,

"COLONIAL OFFICE.

I am,

Sir,

į

Your obedient Servant,

W. Horne