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Enclosure 3.
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IPEL Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
19th May, 1904.
I beg to inform you that at the annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce held on the 28th ultimo, special reference was made to the projected railway from Canton to Hong Kong and the wish was then expressed by the members present that the incoming Committee should take up the question with a view, if possible, to accelerating the construction of this important line.
You have possibly seen in the local press a report of the meeting, a copy of which I now beg to enclose for convenience of reference.
The reasons for urging the prompt construction of the line are so well known to the Government that I will not here enlarge upon them.
The whole question has been carefully considered by the members of the committee, who have decided to address H.B.M. Minister at Peking on the subject, and I beg to enclose a copy of the letter now being despatched to Sir Ernest Satow.
The committee have reason to believe that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has had the matter under consideration and feel confident therefore that they can rely upon his fullest and heartiest support in urging forward the early construction of this line, on which the continued prosperity of Hong Kong so vitally depends.
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