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December 14, us will be seen from the enclosed copy of a
letter addressed to me by the Managing Director and the
Acting Engineer-in-Chief.
These officers were ana ure
carrying on their duties on the lines you airected me to
Some appre-
adėpt in your Despatch No.51 of November 14.
hension, however, as to their exact functions having been
created in the mind of the Governor of Hongkong, I wrote
His Excellency an explanatory despatch, copy of which is
also enclosed.
Through traffic having at last been resumed, the
have now,
Hongkong Government in terms of the original undertaking,
come forward with a claim in respect of loss of earnings.
Copies of the covering despatch and of my answer thereto
are submitted herewith.
I venture to hope that you will approve the attitude
I have adoptou in this matter, as to permit interference
with the railway or its administration, at the hands of
the various individuals, who from day to aug control thu
local
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