CONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
sir,
PRINTED
POR USE
EASTERN
No. P
COLONIAL SPFIB
C.O.
4111
RA 18 %0. 05)
Government House,
565
Hongkong, 20th.October, 1905.
35430
In continuation of my Confidential
Despatch of the 5th. September, 1905, on the subject of
the survey and preliminary work for the section of the
Canton-Kowloon Railway within British Territory, I have now
the honour to transmit a report of today's date received
from Mr. J. C. Bruce, Chief Surveying Engineer, on three
alternative routes for this section. These routes are the
one proposed by Mr. P. T. Somerville Large in a report he
made in 1899 for the British and Chinese Corporation and
the East and West routes as approximately indicated by the
red and blue lines on the map which accompanied my Confi-
-dential Despatch of the 11th. July last.
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In paragraph 5 of that. Despatch
I suggested that it would be found more economical in
construction and much more so in running if instead of a
Railway by the East route crossing the hills North of
Kowloon
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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