CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903 — Page 603

telegraph to have those mails similarly taken over from the

Russian Post Office on arrival at the ports mentioned.

The mail for Chefoo will contain specially superscribed

letters and post-cards addressed to Chefoo and Wei-hai-Wei, and

the mail for Shanghai will contain similar correspondence for

and

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that place, for Hankow, Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, Canton

Hoihow and Hong Kong.

The Postmaster General will be glad to learn in due

course the decision arrived at with regard to the despatch

of correspondence in the reverse direction from Hong Kong

and the Colonial Postal Agencies in China.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

DRAFT.

Hong Kong

Weihai wei

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Mr. Antrobus,

Mr. Cox.

Mr. Lucas.

Mr. Graham.

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The Duke of Marlborough.

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I've made the following corrections: 1. Corrected "Anoy" to "Amoy" as it is the correct spelling of the city now known as Xiamen. 2. Removed non-English characters and nonsensical words (e.g., "میه", "سنة و", "ві") as they appear to be OCR errors or unrelated text. 3. Corrected minor spacing issues and reformatted the text into paragraphs using HTML `

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