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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
APPENDIX I.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION
* Antiqua
"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
*8 Bahama
* Barbados
8 Bechuanaland Protectorate (including Francistown, Gaberones, Kanye,
Lake Ngami, Lobatsi, Macloutsie, Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepclole, Palachwe, Ra. [Khamastown],
moulsa, Shosong, and Tati River)
- Belgium and Belgian
Congo
* Benadir (Italian Colony)
* Bermuda
* Bolivia
8 Bosnia-Herzegovina
** Brazil
* British
East
Africa
Protectorate (including Uganda)
* British Guiana
British Honduras
• British New
(Papua)
Quinea
British North Borneo
*Bulgaria
«British Somaliland
Cameroons
**Canada (Dominion of) * Cayman Islands
* Ceylon
*Chili
China
- Chosen (formerly Corea)
Colombia, Republic of * Congo, including Black Point, Mayumba and Nyanga *sCosta Rica a b **Crete a
8 Cuba a
Cyprus
*Denmark (including Faroe
Islands, Greenland, and Iceland)
**Dominica
*Dominican Republic (San
Dominica)
* Eouador
**Egypt
*sEythrea (Italian Colony)
Ethiopia, Empire of
Falkland Islands
Fanning Islands
Fiji Islands
*France
* French Colonies, viz. :—
* Algeria, s Martinique, Guadeloupe and depen- 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, * Mauritania,
8
Réunion, French Soin- aliland, Mdagascar, *New Caledonia and de- pendencies, **St. Pierre- et-Miquelon, the French portion of the Low Archi- pelago, and the French Establishments in India (Pondichery, Chander- nagor, Karikal, Mahé,and Yanaon), Aniam, &Cam- bodia, &Tonkin, and in 8Cochin China, French Establishments in «Mor- occo, viz., Casablanca, El-Ksar-el-Kbir, Larache, Mazagan, Moga- dor, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands, and French Post Offices in China and in *Turkey, * Indo-Chin", and Indo-Chinese Post Offices in China Gambia
the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Delagoa Bay, and Mozambique Rhodesia (Southern) *&Roumania
British India where there are Indian post offices) *sItaly and the Italian Post
Office at Tripoli, Bengh-st azi, Durazzo, 8 Janina, *Sentari in Albania * Italian Colonies - viz., Erythrea and Benadir Jamaica
Japan a, and Japanese Post Offices in China and Korea a Lagos *8 Liberia
* Luxemburg
Malay States, Federated 8 Malta and its dependencies
Marquesas Islands
.
*8 Mauritius and its depen-
dencies
→ Fez,
> Gerniany
German Colonies viz.:— > 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 Ovambo;alsos Bagamoyo, 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, German Post Offices in 8 Chiua and in Turkey.
& Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Protectorate
*8 Gold Coast
*sGreece (including the
Ionian Islands)
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala **Hayti **Herzegovina
Holland, or Netherlands a Honduras, Republic of
(including Bay Island) Hongkong
*8India, British (including 8 Aden and its dependen- cies and all places outside
& Mexico a
Montenegro Montserrat *Netherlands, orHolland a * Netherlands Colonies, 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,
• Sumatra, a, &Celebes, a, Borneo (except North- west part) a, Billiton, Archipelago of Banca, a, Archipelago of Riouw, a, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Floris, and the South- west part of Timor), a, sthe Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North- west part of New Guinea (Papua) a
* Nevis *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 *Norway
& Panama, Republic of 8 Papua
• Paraguay * Patagonia
* Persia
* Peru ** Portugal,
including
*Azores and *Madeira * PortugueseColonies viz:-
Goa and its dependencies (Damâo and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verde Islands and dependencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabinda, Muculla, Mussera and Is- land of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with
Russia and Russian Post Offices in China, viz, at Pekin, Tientsin, Chefoo, Shanghai, Hankow, and Russian offices in Turkey St. Helena
* St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
* St. Vincent, West Indies **Salvador
* Sarawak
* Servia
*8 Seychelles a **Siam
8 Sierra Leone
Solomon
tectorate Shortland Island) *Somaliland Protectorate 8 South Africa, Union of (including Cape, Colony, Natal and Zululand, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Basutoland, British Bechuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Griqualand West, Little Namaqualand, St. John's River Territory, Transkei, Tombuland, and Walfisch Bay) *Southern Nigeria **Spain (including Balearic
and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies, viz. :- Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies, and the Spanish Establish. ment at Arcila, iD Morocco
Islands Pro- (including
*&Straits Settlements and
8 Labuan **Sweden *Switzerland * Tahiti.
*8 Tobago *8 Trinidad
• Tunis *8 Turkey
in
*British Agencies 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
• United States of America * United States Colonies, viz..- • Hawaiian (or
*
Sandwich) Islands, Por- to Rico, Philippine Is lands, and Guam (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. * Included in Reply Coupon System.
a Does not exchange reply coupons which have not been stamped by the issuing office.
b Does not accept as valid at the time of settlement reply coupons which its own Officers have òmitted to date -stamp at the time of issue.
NOTE-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics.
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