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Administration, and the Agents of the British and Chinese Corporation, which provided that both parties should make
reciprocal and satisfactory arrangements for the working of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in conjunction with the
Canton-Hankow Railway.
I shall be glad if Your Lordship
will be good enough to supply me with a copy of this pre-
-liminary agreement of which no record can be found either
at Government House or in the Colonial Secretary's Office,
together with copy of the correspondence leading up to it,
and I have the honour to inquire whether an obligation is.
imposed upon the Chinese Government, either as indemnity
for a breach of faith, or by the preliminary agreement in
question, to link up the Kowloon-Canton Railway with the
Canton-Hankow Railway when both lines have been constructed.
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I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient,
humble servant,
an
duga
Governor, &C • •