CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 38

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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ther own

expense, had hither &

been found to work well & I ohd be glad to know what advantage wd in their

opinion result either to

foreign or to japanere interests

if the Japanese Sort

were

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take over the three Foreign

Port Offices hitherto established

in Japan & subotitute one

their own instead.

They

e of

replied that under the present systeme Japanese in foreign countrute cd only mail letters to a japanese treaty Port, &

that

(

that if their letters had to go further, they had to report

them in the Japanese P.O. In the same way a Japanese in the interior of Japan

cannot at preocut poot a letter drich to a foreign

country but much send it

to a treaty Port to be mailed in a foreign mail. Johvewed

that this consideration

appeared to be a slight one.

when compared with the delivery of the letters of foreigners. The number of letters canied to

or

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