Abridgement of the memorial on postal service dd 6 March 1905. The issue was caused by Germany's setting up post offices inside the German concession in Shandong and along the Shandong Railway posing constraints to China's postal service. Under the mediation of I.G. Sir Robert Hart, the Qing government eventually recognized only two of the German inland post offices and abolished all others 光緒三十一年二月初一日題為「郵政節略」的奏摺，由於德國在山東租地及膠濟鐵路沿線設郵局，對中國郵務形成掣肘，在總稅務司赫德的調停下，清廷最後只承認濟南和濰縣兩商埠設局，其他一律裁撤