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GENERAL POST OFFICE. LONDON,

11th. April, 1911.

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Sir:-

With reference to your letter of the 2knd. ultimo,

No. 9658/11, I am directed to acquaint you, for the

information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Af-

faire, that parcels for Japan and for certain places

in Manchuria can be sent by post from this Country

viâ Siberia. The service has been in operation for

some time past.

Arrangements are in progress for

establishing a parcel post to the British Post Office

Agencies in China by the route of Siberia; but settle-

ment in regard to the numerous points of detail an-

volved has necessarily been delayed during the con-

sideration of the question as to the transfer of the

control of the Agencies in quest_un from the Colonial

to the Imperiul Administration.

In the meantime, the only classes of postal packets

he Under Secretary of Stute,

Foreign Office.

which