CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 584

Address reply to "The Secretary, General Post Omes,"

quoting Registered No.

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شرح

C O

GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

8339

March 1907.

(RM 6 MAR 07

530

Sir,

I am directed by the Postmaster General to send to you

herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for

the Colonies, copies of Circulars, dated the 25th of October

1906 and the 7th and 18th of February last, issued by the

International Bureau of the Postal Union concerning the

re-opening of the Trans-Siberian route for the conveyance

of Mails between Europe and the Far East.

It will be seen that, at any rate until the 1st of

October next, the Fast of China Railway Company will

maintain the transit rates fixed in 1903, namely la francs

per kilogramme of letters and postcards and 3 francs per

kilogramme of other articles. With the consent of the

Loras Commissioners of the Treasury, these terms have been

accepted; but in view of the high cost of transit, the use

of the route will be restricted, as in 1903, to fully prepaid

letters and postcards specially superscribed for trans-

mission via Siberia. A similar restriction is to obtain in

the more important continental countries; and the Postmaster nuer Secretary of State,

OLONIAL OFFICE

General