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The Daily Gazette
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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On Nov. 23, French postal officials Paul Magane and Henry Pelletier met US Postmaster-General Key in Washington, requesting and receiving full access to study American postal and telegraph systems on behalf of the French government.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Messrs. Paul Magane, Inspecteur des Postes et Telegraphes, and M. Henry Pelletier, also an officer of the Postal and Telegraphic service of France, called upon Postmaster-General Key yesterday and presented letters of introduction, soliciting for them, on the part of the French Government, such facilities as he might feel inclined to place at their disposition to further an examination and report upon the postal service and telegraphs of this country. Judge Key at once gave orders which will enable these French experts to possess themselves of all the information in regard to the practical operations of the Post Office Department, and will facilitate their inquiries of similar nature elsewhere throughout the country.
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France
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Nov. 23
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french experts granted full access to information on us postal and telegraph operations
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Messrs. Paul Magane, Inspecteur des Postes et Telegraphes, and M. Henry Pelletier, officers of the French Postal and Telegraphic service, visited Postmaster-General Key in Washington, presenting letters of introduction from the French Government to request facilities for examining and reporting on the US postal service and telegraphs. Judge Key immediately ordered provisions to enable their study of Post Office Department operations and facilitate similar inquiries elsewhere in the country.