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THE BRITISH AND CHINESE CorporATION, LIMITED.
Telegraphie Address: CAMERIST, LONDON"
3. Lombard Street, London/E.C.3.
18th August, 1925.
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His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
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CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY.
I have the honour to draw your attention to the condition into which this railway has fallen owing to the disturbed state of the Kwantung Province.
Even in normal times the profits of the line are insufficient to pay the loan service, which has to be met by the Chinese Government from outside sources, a state of affairs which it was hoped would be remedied when, by the completion of the Canton-Kowloon line, the Canton-Kowloon Railway became the terminal section of a principal trunk line through central China.
There is no immediate prospect of this new construction work being done, and at present the railway is falling into a state of deterioration and disuse, under circumstances with which you are without doubt familiar.
So deplorable is the state of the line, and so difficult is its general management, that the agents of the Corporation in the Far East have gone so far as to suggest ita abandonment, coupled with a demand from the Chinese Government for their passage home of the British Staff. We, in London, however, would be extremely loath to adopt such a course, in the first place in the interests of the bond-holders, for whom we act as quasi-trustees, but
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