CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9] — Page 283

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

CONFIDENTIA L.

Hongkong.

279

Res 1-10 Government House,

Hongkong, 15th. August, 1910.

You

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My Lord,

Enclosure 1.

Fonclosure 2.

I have the honour to confirm my

telegram of the 2nd. instant, a copy of which is enclosed.

2.

I forward the enclosed copy of a

minute by the Postmaster-General, dated the 6th. instant,

from which Your Lordship will see that the estimated loss

on Postal Agencies in China for 1910 is placed at $51,578,

of which sum $24,528 is on account of Military Contribut-

-ion. According to the amount of correspondence sent at

the present time from these Agencies by the Siberian route

the annual loss on account of this service is estimated at,

at least, $59,130 per annum.

3.

The offer of the Imperial Treasury |

to pay for the present and future years the whole differ-

-once between the receipts and expenditure necessarily

incurred in the working of these Postal Agencies, Military

Contribution still being paid on gross receiptą would

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE

&c

&C...

therefore

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