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diminish the congestion of Canton City, and by means of a railway, to induce residence at Vitampon when the river offered better facilities.
He refused to admit that this short line of some miles had anything to do with the Canton Kowloon Railway.
I reminded His Highness that under the Corporation's agreements the latter were entitled to object to rival railways, pointed out that this Whampoa line would run for a part of its course along the route of the Canton Kowloon railway, and insisted that it must detract from the value of the Corporation's Concession. The Prince refusing to wait this, I urged that after all the Canton-Kowloon railway was partly Chinese, and that it was only rational from the point of view of economy and efficiency, apart from the stipulations of the agreements, that an important branch line connecting with the Chinese section should be constructed and managed by the same administration.