London's Ignorance of an Increase London, Dee. 12.
In the House of Commons yesterday Sir Edwin Stockton _requested information on ' "the material increase in the Chinese postal and telegraph charges since the removal of the competition of foreign post offices." He aske whether the Foreign Office bore in mind the demoralizing influence of such postal methods on foreign commerce and was endeavouring to afford foreign interests dec nate protection in cases where China assumed control hitherto vested in international bodies.
Mr. Ronald McNeill, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. replied that no official report of the increase: had been received and promised to institute inquiries.—Reuter.
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