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

quoting Registered No378,273/08.

Sir,

係

C. O.

3086 580

AUG 35

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

17-August, 1903.

I am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, No. 28163,

enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong-Kong

on the subject of an announcement made by the Shanghai Banks

to the effect that they intend in future to forward their

correspondence for Europe by the Trans-Siberian route, a

course which will be detrimental to the interests of the

British Postal Agency at that port, inasmuch as the

correspondence and the revenue derived from it will be

diverted to the local Russian Post Office.

In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the

Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a communication

to the same effect had already been received here from the

Postmaster General of Hong-Kong; and I am to forward herewith

a copy of the reply which was sent to him on the 28th of last

Mr. Chamberlain will gather from that letter that

month.

this Department has had considerable correspondence on the

the Secretary of State,

COLONIAL

OFFICE.

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Addrese reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office," quoting Registered No378,273/08. Sir, 係 C. O. 3086 580 AUG 35 GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, 17-August, 1903. I am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, No. 28163, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong-Kong on the subject of an announcement made by the Shanghai Banks to the effect that they intend in future to forward their correspondence for Europe by the Trans-Siberian route, a course which will be detrimental to the interests of the British Postal Agency at that port, inasmuch as the correspondence and the revenue derived from it will be diverted to the local Russian Post Office. In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a communication to the same effect had already been received here from the Postmaster General of Hong-Kong; and I am to forward herewith a copy of the reply which was sent to him on the 28th of last Mr. Chamberlain will gather from that letter that month. this Department has had considerable correspondence on the the Secretary of State, COLONIAL OFFICE.

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# Addrese reply to-"The Secretary, General Post Office," quoting Registered No378,273/08. sir, 係 C. O. 3086 580 AUG 35 GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, 17-August, 1903. I am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge tht the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, No. 28163, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong-Kong on the subject of an announcement made by the Shanghai Banks to the effect that they intend in future to forward their correspondence for Europe by the Trans-Siberian route, a course which will be detrimental to the interests of the British Postal Agency at that port, inasmuch as the correspondence and the revenue derived from it will be diverted to the local Russian Post Office. In reply I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a communication to the same effect had already been received here from the Postmaster General of Hong-Kong; and I am to forward herewith a copy of the reply which was sent to him on the 28th of last Mr. Chamberlain will gather from that letter that month. this Department has had considerable correspondence on the ader Secretary of State, subject LONTAL OFFICE. !

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