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Secretary,
Sir,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 30th September,
1920.
With reference to your letter of the 22nd September, 1920, on the subject of the delays in the arrival of mails from England, I am directed to inform you that the apparent cause of irregularity is the failure of the Bombay-Nagapatam train to connect with the regular British India boata to Penang. This train awaits the arrival of the English mail at Bombay which does not always arrive in 14 days as scheduled, with the result that the connections from India onwards are dislocated. The Postmaster General is satisfied, however, from a comparison of the times of arrival of "marked mails" by other vessels that the present service via Negapatam is the best available. The London Post Office was requested early in August to include the Hongkong letter mail in the London-Singapore mail which is conveyed from Pe- -nang to Singapore by rail and it is hoped that it may on th- at account sometimes catch an earlier connection thence to China.
With regard to the transhipment at Singapore of
a recent mail to the S.S. "Benavon", the Postmaster General reports that that vessel lett Singapore on the afternoon of the 14th September while the S.S. "Kashgar' did not sail till early on the morning of the 16th September. The Post- -muster General at Singapore had therefore reason to believe
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