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Aden

Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda

do.

dlo.

lo

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British East Africa :-

Kilindini, Mombassa

Laumi only (via London)

British Guiana (via

London)

British Som diland Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

Algeria and Corsica Austria Hungary Azores and Madeira Belgium Beyrouth

Bosnia Herzegovina Cameroons & Togo Cape Verd Island Chili

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS

§ Cyprus (via London) Falkland Island (as far as Stauley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- era, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London) India (via Calcutta) Jamaica

Lagos (via London) Leeward Islands do. Malay Stutes Malta

Mauritius

Newfoundland (via L`don) New Z aland (via London) Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

Nyasaland Protectorate Salonien

Sarawak Seychelles

FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Danish West Indies Denmark

Dutch East Indies Dutch Guiana Dutch West Indies Ecuador

Egypt Erithen

Faroe Islands

Formosa

China(Japanese Post Offices) France

China

Constantinople

Corea (via Japan)

Corsica

Crete

Cuba

Dahomey

French Gu'ana

French Guinea

„French Sonali Coast

French West Indies Germany

Teeland

Italy

Ivory Coast

Japan

Karafuto

Knochau

Liberia

Luxemburg

Macao

Madigasear

St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone do.

Straits Settlements (Direct)

Tobago (via London) Trinidad

do.

United Kingdom (vis

Gibraltar)

Windward Islands ;-

Grenada, and St.

Vincent (via L'don)

St. Lucia do.

Zauzibar (via Calcutta)

Portuguese India

Portuguese West Africa

Reurion

Roumania

Russia (in Asia)

Russia including Finland)

Senegal

Servia

Smyrna

Sweden

Manchuria (Japanese Past Switzerland (via France)

Do. (via Belgium)

Offices)

Montenegro

Tripoli

New Caledonia

Tunis

Norway

Portugal

Portuguese East Africa

; Turkey Offices) United States

(Austrian

Post

Holland

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS

223. -Purcels for the undermentioned places can be insured :---

Countries (Via Germany)

Austria-Hungary

and Iceland

Belgium

France

Denmark, Faroe Islands

Germany

Holland Luxemburg Norway

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Portugal Sweden Switzerland

223x.—Insured articles have all the safeguards of the registration system; and, subject to the following regulations, compensation will be paid if they or any of their contents are Lost in the past.

Insured articles must not be addressed to initials or in pencil.

A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender. He may also obtain an advice of the delivery of a letter and in the case of certain countries of an insured parcel, under the same conditions as those applicable to registered letters.

All the seals on an insured letter or parcel must be of the same kind of wax (or lead in the case of parcels), and minst bear distinct impressions of the same private device. Coins must not be used for sealing; and the device must not consist merely of straight, crossed, or curved lines which could readily be imitated.

If an article tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the Officer of the Post Office to whom it is tendered, fulfi! the foregoing conditions as to packing and seal- ing, it is his duty to refuse to insure it. Nevertheless, the onus of properly enclosing, packing, and sealing the packet lies upon the sender; and the Post Office assumes no Liability for loss arising from defects which may not be observed at the time of posting.

The amount for which an article is insured must be written by the sender both in words and figures, at the top of the address side of the cover. No alteration or erasure of the inscription is allowed. If a mistake is made, the entry must be completely obliterated and an entirely new one made by the sender.

REGULATIONS

224. —The fee (which is for insurance and registration) must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which the sender must hand in at the same time with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting; they must not be placed on the cover or label of the parcel. A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insuredparcel.

* No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquid ↑ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipili, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem. Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene. Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Sant Quaranta, Scie, Trebizond, Valona. Vathi. No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Fach Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The senders must supply declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the grossweight of

:he Parcel,

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