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„dresseet and the Chief Postal Cenace requests the opinion

of the General Post Office on the matter,

It is as follows,

The Post Office as such is simply a oarrying agency,

and to deliver to the proper addressee any paakseta gonfided

Ito it, or, if it earmet deliver them, so dispose of them

woording so the wishes of the sendart and it can depart from

Vida rinciple only at the express request of a properly sonstituted

enthority. The British Post Office has received no general

request to restrict or arruil in the sass of paresls reported as

nidressed to enemy ambjesta in Shanghai the option normally

ranted to the sender of an undeliverable juroelt and though

the reason for stoppage was inserted in marusariys on the fom

now in question, no alteration was made sugresting a restrletion

of the option implied in the term of the for,

it is understood that the

As regards the present case,

rools contain merely advertisements of a Dutch Insurance

Company sent for distribution to its agent in Shangthad, who

It is not, prim fuoie,

evident either that the Dutch Consuă will hand over the parools

(the sender may have arranged that

hag, ens to be of enemy nati mlity,

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to the original addres500 –

She should have them distributed by a new agent)

鹼 or that the

enang will benefit appresisbly if they are handed over: and de

all the ciremstances it is suggested that the pureels new

iq ostion might well be delivered to the Dutch đồ:nouk,

As regards the future, it is muzgested that sat

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