C.O.
42110
FRINTED
FOR
USE
EASTERN
) (Paraphrase of Telegrame
to 88 LONIAL OFFI
Tho..
RE?
17 MOV 06
685
From Governor Sir M.Nathan to Mr Lyttelton.
(Received, Coiental Office, 4.35 p.m.(25th November, 1905)
I will reply in a few days to your
※
telegram of 22nd November which requires much considera- tion. This Government's object is to secure that Hong Kong remains the port of any railway running to Canton and any foreign influence or interest in such
At the same a railway might militate against this. time the completion of the Canton Hankow railway by the time that the Canton Kowloon line is finished would
be advantageous.
8400 159.12
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