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revenue derived from the whole railway should
be divided between the Chinese Government and
the Colonial Government according to mileage
or according to such other arrangement as
might be found best on investigation.
3.
The Corporation will probably agree
that if the Colonial Government shares the
responsibility for the working of the whole
railway they will find it easier to raise
the necessary funds for the construction of
the Chinese section. They will probably also
agree that the success of the line to be con-
structed by the Corporation is dependent on
its being continued through British territory
with a sea terminus in Kowloon: and also
that the preliminary agreement between the
Corporation and the Chinese Government is of
such a nature that it may in certain contin-
gencies be necessary for the Corporation to
have recourse to the good offices of His
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Majesty's