HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
APPENDIX I.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION
- Antigua
*8 Argentine Republic
Ascension
te Australia, Commonwealth of (including New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tas- mania, Victoria, Western Australia) Austria-Hungary and Au- strian Post Offices in the Levant
* Bahamas
* Barbados
✔ Bechuanaland Protectorate (including Francistown, Gaberones,
Kanye,
Lake Ngami, Lobatsi, Macloutsic, Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolole, Palachwe, [Khamastown], Ra- moulsa, Shosong, and Tati River)
✔ Belgium and Belgian
Congo
* Benadir (Italian Colony) * Bermuda
Bolivia
*Brazil
Bosnia-Herzegovina
*British East
Africa
Protectorate (including
Uganda)
8* British Guiana
**s British Honduras
• British New
(Papua)
Guinea
British North Borneo
*Bulgaria
Cameroons
*8British Somaliland
*8Canada (Dominion of)
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Chili
China
<☛ Chosen (formerly Corea)
Colombia, Republic
-
of
Congo, including Black Point, Mayumba and Nyanza
*&Costa Rica a b **Crete a
. Cuba a
Cyprus
Danish Colonies, viz.:-
St. Croix, St. and *St. Thomas
John,
*Denmark (including Faroe
Islands, Greenland, and Iceland)
*Dominica
* Dominican Republic (San
Dominica)
* Ecuador
Egypt
sEythrea (Italian Colony)
Ethiopia, Empire of
dencies, French Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependencies, Angwey, Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Whydah (also Sette Cama and Assinie), * Dahomey, Congo, & Ivory Coast, >Guinea, 8 Mauritania, 8 Réunion, French Som- aliland, Madagascar, &New Caledonia and de- pendencies, *&St. Pierre- et-Miquelon, the French portion of the Low Archi- pelago, and the French Establishments in India (Pondichéry, Chander. nagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanaon), & Annam, &Cam- bodia, &Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Establishments in Mor- occo, viz., Casablanca, El-Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez, Larache, Mazagan, Moga- dor, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands, and French Post Offices in China and iu Turkey, $ Indo-Chinn, and Indo-Chinese Post Offices in China Gambia
8 Gerniany
German Colonies viz. :-
8 Caroline Islands, & Ma-
.rian Islands (except
Guam), Pelao Islands,
Marshall Islands, New Guinea (portion of), *«Sa- moa, &Togo Territory, in- cluding Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and sterritory in South West Africa, viz., Grand Namaqua,
the Damaras Country, and Southern portion of Ovainbo;also sBagamoyo, and 8 Dar-es-Salaam, & Lindi and Tanga in East Africa, German Establishments in Mo- rocco, viz., Casablanca, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra- bat, Saffi and Tangier, Germau Post Offices in & China and in 8 Turkey. $ Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Protectorate
*8 Gold Coast
*sGreece (including the
Ionian Islands)
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala **Hayti 8*Herzegovina **Holland, or Netherlands a Honduras Republic of
(including Bay Island) *Hongkong
Falkland Islands
Fanning Islands
Fiji Islands
*8France
*
*French Colonies, viz. :—
** Algeria, Martinique,
sGuadeloupe and depen-sIndia, British (including
8 Aden and its depe den- cies and all places outside British India where there are Indian post offices) *sItaly and the Italian Post Office at Tripoli, Bengh- azi, s Durazzo, 8 Janina,
Scutari in Albania * Italian Colonies viz., Erythrea and Benadir Jamaica
*
Japan a, and Japanese Post Offices in China and Korea a
Lagos Liberia
& Luxemburg
Malay Sates, Federated 8 Malta and its dependencies
Marquesas Islands
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8 Mauritius and its depen-
dencies
* Mexico a → Montenegro
Montserrat *Netherlands, orHolland a * NetherlandsColonies, viz:
-* Dutch Guiana (Sur- inam), a, Curacoa and dependencies, viz.:-Bo- naire, Aruba, the Nether- lands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, Java, a, Madura, a, 8 Sumatra, a, sCelebes, «, Borneo (except North- west part) a, sBilliton, 8Archipelago of Banca, a, Archipelago of Riouw, a, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok,
Sumbawa,
Floris, and the South- west part of Timor), «, sthe Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North- west part of New Guinea (Papua) a
* Nevis
*s Newfoundland
8 New Zealand (including *Cook or Hervey and Palmerston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki
and Penrhyn (Tongar- eva) Islands
* Nicaragua
& Nigeria (Southern) **Norway
• Panama, Republic of s Papua
* Paraguay Patagonia
*
* Persia
* Peru
*
8
's Portugal,
including
*Azores and *Madeira * PortugueseColonies viz:- Goa and its dependencies (Damao and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verde Islands and dependencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Muculla, Mussera and Is- land of St. Thomas and
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of
Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment Ajuda, Angola, Delagoa Bay, and & Mozambique st Rhodesia (Southern) *8 Roumania
*Russia and Russian Post
*
Offices in China, viz, at Pekin, Tientsin, Chefoo, Shanghai, IIankow, and Russian offices in Turkey St. Helena
St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
* St. Vincent, West Indies
**Salvador
*
Sarawak
* Servia
*sSeychelles a **Siam
8 Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands Pro- tectorate (including Shortland Island) *Somaliland Protectorate 8 South Africa, Union of
(including Cape Colony, Natal and Zululand, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Basutoland, British Bechuana and, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Griqualand West, Little Namaqualand, St. John's River Territory, Transkei, Tembuland, aud Walfisch Bay) *sSouthern Nigeria *8Spain (including Balearic
and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies, viz. :- Fernando Po, Anuobon and dependencies, and the Spanish Establish- ment at Arcila, in Morocco
**Straits Settlements and
8 Labuan ** Sweden *Switzerland * Tahiti
*8 Tobago * Trinidad
*
• Tunis 8 Turkey
British
*
Ageneies
in
European and Asiatic Turkey, Jaffa, Jerusalem,
Baghdad, Bussorah (Bus- rah), and Koweit
Turks Islands
8 United Kingdom
and
British Post Offices in *Morocco and in Turkey and in China
8 United States of America 8 United States Colonies, viz. :- 8 Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Por- to Rico, Philippine Is lands, nd Guani (Marian Islands)
* Uruguay * Venezuela
*
Virgin Islands Zanzibar
* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, etc., is prohibited in these .countries marked thus *. Uncut diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the United States, and unmounted precious stones can be sent to Belgium. † Gold and silver jewellery is subject to customs duties. Includ- ing Mashonaland and Matabeleland. 8 Included in Reply Coupon System.
a Does not exchange reply coupons which have not been stamped hy the issuing office.
6 Does not accept as valid at the time of settlement reply coupons which its own Officers have omitted to date stamp at the time of issue.
NOTE-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italies.
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