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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 15th. September, 1911.
With reference to Lord Crewe's telegram
logo1 3rd. September, 1909, undertaking on behalf of His Majesty's Government to guarantee this Colony against half the net loss incurred on the collective maintenance of the Chinese Postal Agencies for one year (1910), and to my telegraphic reply dated 16th. September, 1909, and my Despatch Confidential of October
1909
29th., 1910, paragraph 4, in which I informed you that the estimated loss for 1910 would be $54,000, I have the honour to request that the sum of 827,000 due from the Imperial Government to this Colony as "half estimated loss on working of Chinese Postal Agencies" may be paid over before the close of the current year. A statement of the actual loss incurred will be made up and forwarded to you as soon as possible, but the Post- -master-General informs me that payments for the Siberian trans- -it for 1910 will be made up on the statistics taken in November 1911, and that the figures upon which to base a statement of actual loss cannot possibly be obtained earlier than the autum of 1912. I venture to think, however, that it would be unreasonable to require this Government to wait until the end of 1912 for the payments due on account of losses sustained in 1910
and I hope that you will move the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury to make a provisional adjustment with as little delay
as possible.
ERICHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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