CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12] — Page 363

Siplomatie and Naval Services, and to the

general publie as notwithstanding the liberal terms given by the American Government to the

by

Japanese

their honvention, I do not consider the latter can

yit be sufficiently

in postal successfully

matters to

possibly

well versed

carry

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a service which it is so important to the whole civilized world should not

for a short time be

even

mismanaged

I feel confident

that the change contemplated by the Convention when carried into effect, will give

rise to

much

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the

dissatisfaction part of the Foreign Community

of Japan..

5th. It might be arranged,

if any

such Convention

that now under review should

be concurred in

by the

English Government, that the

Officers in charge of mails might deliver the

correspondence for the Minister and when British Officials direct to them in place of passing it into the hands of the gapanes

Officials-

but the United States Government pays a subsidy