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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

terisk in rule 157, no letters or packets addressed to those countries and containing such articles can be accepted for registration.

199. Letters or packets containing coin for any of the British colonies not in the postal union can be registered, and if they are posted without being registered they are treated in the same manner as local letters under similar circumstances.

INDEMNITY FOR LOSS,

200. Except in cases beyond control (.., fire, tempest, shipwreck, earthquake, war, &c.) the Hongkong Postal Administration will, as provided for in local Rule No. 97, grant compensation for the loss of a registered letter if lost whilst in its custody up tó a maximum of $10. No compensation will, however, be paid for the loss of anything enclosed in an uninsured registered letter, provided the letter itself is delivered, or for the damage of anything enclosed in such letter, or for any expense arising directly or indirectly from delay in transit.

INSURANCE of Letters,

201. - Letters containing paper money, &c., on which a value has been declared may be sent from Hongkong to any of the following places, insured to the amount of the declared value:

Algeria.

Gaboon.

Annam.

Gambia.

Argentine Republic.

Germany.

Austria-Hungary.

Azores.

Belgium.

Bosnia.

British Guiana.

Bulgaria.

Cameroons (Duala and Vie-

toria only).

Canary Islands.

Cape Verde Islands (San- tiago and St. Vincent only).

Ceylon.

* Chili.

Cochin China.

Crete (Candia, Canea, and

Retimo). Dahomey (Agoué, Carnot-

ville, Cotonon, Dogba, | Great Popo, Porto Novo, Sagou, Savalon, Whydah, and Zagnanado only). Danish West Indies (St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix).

Demark (including

the

Faroe Islands, Greenland

and Iceland).

§ Egypt.

Falkland Islands.

France.

and Loango only).

French Guiana.

French Guinea.

French Congo (Libreville

German East Africa,

Guadeloupe.

Herzegovina.

Holland.

India.

Italian East Africa (Assab

and Massowah only).

Italy.

Ivory Const.

Jamaica.

Japans.

Jibouti.

Lagos.

Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat,

Nevis, St. Kitts, and the Virgin Islands). Luxemburg. Madagascar (Antananarivo, Diego Suarez, Majunga, Ste. Marie de Madagas- car, Tamatave only). Madeira.

Malta.

Martinique.

Mayotte.

Morocco (Casablanca, Maza- gan, Mogador, Safli, and Tangier only). New Caledonia. Newfoundland.

Norway,

Nossi Bé

Portugal.

Portuguese East Africa

:

(Lorenzo Marques, Mo- zambique, and Quilimane only).

Portuguese

West Africa

(Benguela, Loanda, Mos- samedes, Bolama and St. Thome only).

Réunion.

Roumania.

Russia.

St. Helena.

Senegal (Daker, Goree, Ru- fisque, St. Louis, Thyes, and Tivaouane only). Servia.

Spain (including the Ba-

learic Islands).

Straits Settlements.

Sweden.

Switzerland.

Tonquin. Trinidad.

Tripoli (Italian Post Office). Tunis.

Turkey (Beyrout, Caifa or Haifa Cavalla, Chios (Seio), Constantinople, Dardanelles, Dedeagatch (Dedeagh), Durazzo, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kerassonde- (Keresun), Mytilene, Pre- vesa, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Qua- ranta, Scutari d'Albanie, Smyrna, Trebizond, Valo- na, Vathy only).

* Autofogasta, Arica, Caldera, Chillan, Concepcion, Copiapó, Coquimbo, Curicó, Iquique, Linares, Pisagua, Punta Arenas, Ranengua, Santiago, San Fernando, Serena, Tacna, Talar, Talcahnana, Taltal, Valdivia and Valparaiso only.

* The amount to be insured is limited to 50%,

§ Letters for places in the Soudau can be insured as far as Wady Halta or Sunkin only,

|| Bagamoyo, Dar-es-salaam, Kilwa, Lindi, Miteinlami, Mohorro, Pangani, Sandani, and Tauga.

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