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would be preferable that all Government

mails passing between this country and

Weihaiwei and also the Government mails

And

to

from Hong Kong should at any rate

during the period of the war be sent

by the Suez route. I am therefore to

enquire what time is actually saved, under

present conditions, by using the Siberian

route instead of the service via Marseilles

for Hong Kong and Weihaiwei. I may add that

the Governor of Hong Kong has recently adopted

the parctice of sending practically all his

despatches by sea, and forwarding duplicates

by the Siberian route. This practice will,

modified

of course, be dissentilled if it is decided to

abandon for the present the use of the

Siberian route for the transmission of

Government mails.

I am etc.

qu

79.5.1

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