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247. TAC 17/7 DET. Becket 17 ፖ.
Mr. E. J. Harding.
Mr. Strachey.
Sir J. Shuckburgh,
X Sir G. Grindle.
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Earl of Clareulon.
Mr. Amery.
Common
DRAFT.
for Scrub 20 May
it to be copied. Surpl Mindy dent 1750. by hand,
Confidential
Urgent
Sir,
Gov. 12714/26 HK
Ind
U.S. of S.
F.0.
19 JUL
20 July 1926
498
With reference to previous correspondence
on the subject of the allocation of the Boxer Indemnity funds under the control of H.M.G., I am etc. to transmit to you, to be laid before Sec. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the accompanying copy of a
secret despatch from Sir C.Clementi, dated the 204
May, in which he expresses the earnest hope that a grant may be made from Boxer Indemnity funds for
the construction of a junction line at Canton to connect the Canton-Kowloon Railway with the Canton- Hankow railway.
2. The extreme importance of this connection, both to Hong Kong and to British interests generally, SAMS
has always been recognised Sir Austen Chamberlain will be aware that continual attempts were made,
both before the construction of the Canton-Kowloon
Railway and during the subsequent negotiations for
a working agreement covering the British and Chinese
sections of that Railway, to arrive at a satisfactory
arrangement with the Peking and Canton Govts. for the
construction of the junction line. With the outbreak
of the war the project fell into abeyance and the
political confusion in China during the last few