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be withdrawn from Hongthong Control, but the Establishment at Shanghoe of

An

independent Post office, communicating direct with the London and all intermediate

offices,

is an

arrangement which must-

be sought for from the Post Master General

which

in Londow and not from this Government.

The only practical questions left at present for the decision of the Shanghao Community are (1) whether

are

they wish for a branch of the Horything

Post Office

prefer

or (2) whether they would

to be without a Post Office at all-

making such arran

rangements as they

pleased for receiving their letters from, forwarding their letters to, the_

and

Hongkong Office.

The latter alternative is the

one

which

would be most advantageous and agreeable

D

to this

Government, as if

if there were no Post

Office at Shanghae there would be scarcely any decrease in the Postal Revenue of the Colony, while there would be a large saving

of both trouble and expense; but the recent short experiment of no Post Office appeared:

to give general dissatisfaction in Shanghai

and in accordance with what was stated

and

supposed to be the wish of the Shanghor

Community the

Agency

was re-establishen.

The Shanghoe Chamber of.

Commerce in their letter while declining to

contribute on the part of the community to the expense of

this

remains a mere

Ageney so long

branch

long as it

Office of Honghong,