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COPY
ARAPHRAST
TELEGRAM.
511
The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State
for the Colonies.
Dated: 23rd March,
(Received, Colonial Office, 1.12 a.m., 23rd March, 1923)
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I feel almost certain that I can get Sun Yat Sen to consent to immediate construction of the railway connecting
lines Canton-Hankow and Kowloon-Canton This would involve a
loan from British and Chinese corporation on terms similar to those on which the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon railway was built, coat of land resumption to be nutaalty agreed upon: money to be paid to the Canton authorities
as the land is handed over.
It is probable that Corporation will ask for a separate guarantee as additional security for a loan, I am consulting H.3Minister and if he can get the consent of the Peking Government to the loan may I be authorised to arrange privately with the corporation suitable guarantee by the Government of Hong Kong against 1088. In the interests of Hong Kong trade the loop-line
is urgently required. The longer the work is delayed
it becomes to acquire the more expensive and difficult
the necessary land,
It would be well worth our while if necessary to
bribe Sun to consent. A little money would be very
valuable to him in his present position.
STUBBS.