CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 73

Address reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office,"

quoting Registered No. 219061

201

GENERAL POST OFFICE LONDON,

20459

11th June 1908.

Theof 12 JUN 2

12

2

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Sir,

I am directed to state, for the information of

Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, that the Postmaster General has

received from the Foreign Office a copy of a letter addressed

to that Department by the China League, advocating the

establishment of a British Post Office at Tientsin. A copy

of the same letter has, it appears, also been forwarded by

the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Colonial

Office.

The question of adding to the number of the Agencies

mentioned in China by the Hong Kong Post Office is not of

course one for the Postmaster General; but, on the assumption

that Mr. Chamberlain is considering it, he has caused

statistics of correspondence from the United Kingdom for

Chinese ports to be taken, and the result is sherm in the

accompanying tabular statement.

As Mr. Chamberlain is aware, the arrangement recently

concluded for penny postage between the United Kingdom and

Under Secretary of State

British

COLONIAL OFFICE.