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of through running powers, which is the eyetem adopted by
the various Government railways in China. The Board of
Communications express the hope that the Kongkong dele-
fatos may be instructed to continue negotiations on that
basis.
I took the opportunity of a visit which, I received
a few days ago from Liung Shih-yi, the Director General
of Railways, who has been indisposed for over a month, to
refer again to the question of the Working Agreement and
I repeated the arguments which I had embodied in my memo-
randum in favour of joint management of the two sectiore.
I further said that there was another point of paramount
importance to both sections of the Canton-Kowloon railway,
and that was a connection with the Canton-lankow railway.
I thought it more prudent to avoid all mention of a posc-
ible loan from the Kongkong Government for this purpoɛe.
Liang Shih-yi assured me that the Board of Communications
were fully alive to the absolute necessity of making the
short connecting link between the Canton-Kowloon and the
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Canton-Hankow railways in the interest of their own lines.
He had made the necessary arrangemente for the construction
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