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account of Chinese or Hongkong Post Offices by means of the

transport services of one or the other of the contracting Admi-

nistrations will be submitted to the benefit of the Administra-

tion whose services carry these mails, to the following transit

charges:-

(a). Within the Chinese Empire and along the littoral

of China, Foreign bordering countries included, when the distance does not exceed 1,500 nautical miles, and when both the Chinese and the Foreign ports are united by the same line of steamers

1. For territorial transit by rail, and also for maritime transit not exceeding 300 nautical miles, 2 francs per kilogramme of letters or postcards, and 25 centimes per kilogramme of other articles;

21 for territorial transit by courier, and also for maritime transit exceeding 200 nautical miles 5 francs per kilogramme of letters and postcards, and 50 centimes per kilogramme of other articles.

(b). Outside of the Chinese Empire, for any transport

of mails other than the categories provided for

in the preeding paragraph, (a) -

1. For territorial or maritime transit, the amounts, per kilogramme of letters or other articles, fixed by Article 4 of the "Convention Frincipale" of Washington, calculated according to distance and the countries traversed, in the Table 'E' published by the contracting Administra- tions;

2 As to correspondence franked by means of

Chinese postage stamps destined for the United Kingdom and its Colonies, Posses- sions and Agencies or for Foreign Coun- tries whether despatched closed or à découvert, in transit through Hongkong and/or the British Fostal Agencies, they will be forwarded to their respective destinations in the same manner and liable to the same transit charges as the cor- respondence remitted to the hongkong Administration by the other Administra

-tions

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