"Those residents of Shanghai who anticipated being able to take advantage of the revised tele graphic rates "within the British Empire. by sending their messages to Hongkong and then Fofiling. them have had their hopes, dashed to the ground, Under" the. Telegraph Regula tions "annexed ° to. the International Tel communication Convention, arrived at in Mad Hid" in 1092, there. is complete power to stop messages filed in any method calculated to feat the charges arrived at by the convention, Thus under Article 51, Paragraphs 3 and 4 provide: a Paragraph 2, 'The ofthe of delivery must stop telegrams" addressed" to" a, telegraphic -refore warding agency well known to be organized with The obleet of enabling the correspondence of third' pares to" evade. the full payment of the Sharges dle for wansintssion, Mwithout "Intermediate Terorwarding. between "the origin sand. the office of ultimate a The mee. stopping. the tee Inform te fee of ote Paragraph 4 les Mehgrama, wut tte otices from nbrond by any" mean whatever (post raph, telephone or oiherwisa), to be reforwarded telegraph with the. object of enabling these itestges to evade the full payment of the charge dive. for the whole. distance, of, the country be netiied of the This means that the telegraphic agencies in Hongkong, suspecting that a message filed there originated in Shanghai, for example, or else Where In China, would have the right to refuse feceplance upon notifying the Administration of the country. of origin of such a step. This Journal understands that firms despatching ables from. Hongkong are now required to declare that their message originated in Hongkong and is not intended to be reflied at des-(ination. That definitely prevents a merchant faking advantage of the revised imperial rate send a message to London, where it could be relayed, for example, to Paris if the combination of the Imperial tate and the London—Paris vale represented a saving on the direct Hongkong-Paris message. The declaration that the telegram originated in Hongkong definitely prevents acceptance of a message from any place in China for relay to un address within the empire.
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