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C O 14295
Extract.
Rece Rec 28 APR 00
176
7. The Canton-Kowloon Railway.
The railway has been much hampered during the past
quarter owing to difficulties in the expropriation of the
required land in various sections. The position has been
most acute in the section between Shek T'an (30 miles) and
Sheklung (40 miles) on the East River, where it has been
impossible until quite recently to make any progress at
all. The question has now, I am told, been satisfactorily
settled.
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The next and most serious difficulty with which the
Railway has had to contend has been the question of the
bridge over the East River at Sheklung. This bridge, the
construction of which has already proceeded so far as the
sinking of caissons, will be a three span, fixed bridge and
will cross the river immediately below the town of Sheklung
thus cutting the town and the upper reaches of the river
off from access by junk. As Sheklung has a very considerable
junk traffic of its own and is not even at the head of
navigation for sea-going junks, there is naturally a con-
siderable
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