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Su;—Now that the Hongkong Government "hes agreed without" ciprocity) to permit C.N.AC, alreratt to use the Colony as a ort of call, it too much to suggest that the CNN.AG. should transport mails from.
ianghal, intended for Europe, to Hongkong? 'The Postal Notification in your issue of to-day, much' to my Surptise, states that alr mall destined for Imperial Airways at Hongkong bhoy to be sent by a steamer. The effect of this procedure Is to give a monopoly of direct air mall. transport to the CNAC. and Air France. It is surely not asking too much to expect the concession made by Hongkong to reciprocated to, the extent of carrying airmails from Shanghai to the Colony by the Shanghat-Canton planes. "There cannot be any cogent reason why airmail sent by the British line should be delayed several days by' the steamer Journey from this port to Honkong.
Surely the arrangement' for the 'Canton-Hanoi service cannot have been concluded on the basis of con ceeding an air monopoly to Air France, Incidentally' the present practice will subject mails for the Trans-Pacific alr-service to the same un-
Brivox, Shanghai, Oct, 25,
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