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Sir CUTHBERT QUILTER
asked the Postmaster-General the weight of mails, in pounds, carried both ways between England and Japan and China, of letters and of other matter viâ the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Suez Canal, Canada, and San Francisco, respectively?
Mr. HERBERT SAMUEL
The estimated weights of the mails exchanged annually between the United Kingdom on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand, are given in the following table:—
| Route. | Weight in pounds of Letters and Postcards. | Weight in pounds of other Articles of Correspondence | |
| Viâ Siberia | … | 261,000 | 88,000 |
| Viâ Suez | … | 5,000 | 831,000 |
| Viâ Canada | … | 1,700 | 171,700 |
| Viâ San Francisco | … | 1,900 | 54,000 |