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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

154.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION

Argentine Republic

Ascension

| Austria-Hungary

* Azores

* Bakamas

* Barbados

§ Bechuanaland Protectorate

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Belgium

• Bermuda

* Bolivia

* Bosnia

• Brazil

British East Africa Pro- tectorate (including Uganda)

* British Guiana

* British Honduras

British New Guinea

* British North Borneo

* British Somaliland

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British Southern Nigeria Bulgaria

• Caicos Island Cameroons

* Canada (Dominion of")

Cape Colony (including Basutoland, British Be- chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri qualand West, Little Namaqualand, St.John's River Territory, Trans- kei, Tembuland, and Walfisch Bay)

* Cayman Islands

* Ceylon

Chili

* Colombia, Republic of

Congo, including Black Point, Majumba and Nyanza

Corea

* Costa Rica

Cyprus

* Danish Colonies; viz.

Greenland, St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas

* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland) Dominica

* Dominican Republic (San

Domingo)

* Ecuador

* Egypt

* Erithrea

* Falkland Islands

Fiji Islands

* France

French Colonies; viz.-

Martinique, Guadeloupe and dependencies, FrenchGuiana(Cayenne), Senegal and dependen- cies, Ahgwey, Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Wydah (also Sette Cama and Assinie), Réu- nion, Comoro Islands, Mayotte and dependen- cies, Madagascar, New Caledonia and dependen- cies, the French portion of the Low Archipelago, and the French Esta- blishments in India, Pon-

Honduras (Republic of) Hongkong & its Agencies

in China

* India (including the In- dian Post Office Esta- blishments in the Per- sian Gulf)

• Italy

* Italian Somaliland

Jamaica

* Japan * Labuan

Lagos

* Liberia

Luxemburg

* Madeira

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Malta

* Mexico

* Montenegro

dichéry, Chandernagor, Marquesas Islands Karikal, Mahé, and • Mauritius and its depen- Yanaon) Annam, Cam- dencies bodia, Tonkin, and in Co- chin China, French Esta- blishments in Morocco, viz.-Casablanca, Kaar-el-Kbir, Fez, Lar- aiche, Mazagan,Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands, Gambia

Germany

El-

* Montserrat

Natal (including Zulu-

Jand)

* Netherlands

* Netherlands Colonies, viz.-Dutch Guiana (Su- and rinam), Curacoa dependencies, viz.-Bo naire, Aruba, the Ne- therlands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, Java, Madura, Sumatra, Celebes, Bor- neo (except North-west part), Billiton, Archi- pelago of Bancá, Archi- pelago of Riouw, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Floris, and the South-west part of Timor), the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North-west part of New Guinea (Papus)

German Colonies; viz.

Caroline Islands, Marian Islands (except Guam), Pelao Islands, Marshall Islands, New Guinea (por- tion of), Samoa (Apia), Togo Territory, includ- ing Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and territory in South West Africa, viz., Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country, and Southern portion of Ovambo; also Bagamoyo, and Dar-es- Salaam, Lindi and Tanga in East Africa. German Establishments in Mor- occo: viz., Casablanca, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra† bat, Saffi and Tangier. Gibraltar (including the

British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez, Laraiche, Rabat, Casa- blanca, Saffi, Mazagan, and Mogador)

* Gold Coust

* Greece

Grenada and the Grena-

dines

* Guatemala

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Hayti

• Herzegovina

* Nevis * Newfoundland

New South Wales New Zealand (Including

Cook or Hervey Islands and the islands of Pal- merston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaangs, Suwarrow, Manahiki and Penrhyn (Tongar- eva).

* Nicaragua

Nigeria

* Norway

Norfolk Island

Nyasaland Protectorate Orange River Colony Panama Republic Paraguay

Patagonia Persia

• Peru

* Portugal

• Portuguese Colonies; -Goa and its dependen-

cies (Damon and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and de- pendencies Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussera and Is- lands of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Dela- goa Bay, and Mozam- bique

* Queensland

↑ Rhodesia (Southern)

* Roumania

• Russia

St. Helena

• St. Kitts

* St. Lucia

* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

* St. Vincent, West Indies * Salvador

• Sarawak

* Servia

* Seychelles

• Siam

Sierra Leone

+ South Australia

* Spain (including Bales.

ric and Canary Islands

• Spanish Colonies; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies

* Straits Settlements * Sweden

• Switzerland

• Tahiti + Tasmania

• Tobago Transvaal

• Trinidad

Tristan d'Acunta

• Turkey

• Turk's Islands

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United Kingdom

* United States

United States Colonies

viz.- Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam (Marian Islands). Uruguay

• Venezuela

↑ Victoria

* Virgin Islands

+ Western Australia

Zanzibar

* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus ·

Uncut diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the United States. + In some of the Australian Colonies gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. ‡ Includ- ing Mashonaland and Matabeleland. § Including Francistown Gaberones, Kanye, Lake Ngami, Lobasti, Macloutzie, Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolole, Palachwe (Khamastown), Ramonlsa Shosong, and Tati River.

NOTE.-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics,