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same route it would be glearly a rival line, and that
the British and Chinese Corporation were justly entitled
under their agreements to object to it, his arguments
had no effect, Your Highness insisting that the Whampoa
scheme is a neparate matter altogether from the Canton-
Kowloon undertaking.
I have the honour to enclose a copy of an official
proclamation laeued by the Viceroy of Ganton which has
lately been received by post from His linjesty's Consul-
General at Canton, and from which it is evident that the
achome objected to is undoubtedly of wider significance
then Your lighness thought when discussing it with Mr.
Carnegie. This proclamation states clearly that the
Board of Commerce has sanctioned the formation of a Jon-
pany to construct a railway from Canton to Amoy,
and
that the tracn to be followed proceeds from the East
gate of Canton city to Whampon, and thence passes through
Tseng-Chong, Shih-Lung, Po-Lo, Kumi-Shan, Hai-Fong, Lu-
Fong and other planes, to Ch'ao-Chou and Amoy. From the
accompanying map, which has been drawn speþily for the
purpose