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Registered No.

412666.

Any reply should bear this number, and should be addressed :-

"The Secretary,

General Post Office."

Copy

81350 | 232

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

11 November 1899.

98537

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 5th ultimo,

No. 25024, and to my reply of the 18th, respecting the

unsatisfactory nature of the mail service afforded to Hong-

Kong by the French Packets of the Messageries Maritimes

Company, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint

you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, that

the French Post Office, after communication with the Company,

finds itself unable to consent to the proposal for a postal

official to accompany the mails from Saigon for the purpose

of sorting correspondence, the practical difficulties being

regarded as insuperable.

The suggestion that the Packets, before proceeding to

their anchorage, should bring to off Green Island until the

mails shall have been transshipped to the Post Office launch

has also been considered. In the opinion of the Company,

however, it is unnecessary for the Packets to stop during

the process of transshipment, and it will suffice to bring

Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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Registered No. 412666. Any reply should bear this number, and should be addressed :- "The Secretary, General Post Office." Copy 81350 | 232 A GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON. 11 November 1899. 98537 Sir, With reference to your letter of the 5th ultimo, No. 25024, and to my reply of the 18th, respecting the unsatisfactory nature of the mail service afforded to Hong- Kong by the French Packets of the Messageries Maritimes Company, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, that the French Post Office, after communication with the Company, finds itself unable to consent to the proposal for a postal official to accompany the mails from Saigon for the purpose of sorting correspondence, the practical difficulties being regarded as insuperable. The suggestion that the Packets, before proceeding to their anchorage, should bring to off Green Island until the mails shall have been transshipped to the Post Office launch has also been considered. In the opinion of the Company, however, it is unnecessary for the Packets to stop during the process of transshipment, and it will suffice to bring Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

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... J} Registered No. 412666. Any reply should bear this number, and should be addressed :- "The Secretary, "General Post Office." Copy 0.0. 81350 | 232 A GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON. 11 November 1899. Mo 98537 Sir, With reference to your letter of the 5th ultimo, No. 25024, and to my reply of the 18th, respecting the unsatisfactory nature of the mail service afforded to Hong- Kong by the French Packets of the Messageries Maritimos Company, I am directed by the Postmaster General to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, that the French Post Office, after communication with the Company, finds itself unable to consent to the proposal for a postal official to accompany the mails from Saigon for the purpose of sorting correspondence the practical difficulties being regarded as insuperable. The suggestion that the Packets before proceeding to their anchorage, should bring to off Green Island until the mails shall have been transshipped to the Post Office launch has also been considered. In the opinion of the Company, however, it is unnecessary for the Packets to stop during the process of transshipment, and it will suffice to bring Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. to

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