Enclosure No.1.
Copy
17th May,
510
1925.
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Dear Lord Willingdon,
As arranged at our last conversation I send
you herewith a short memorandum on the proposed construction of
a Junction Line at Canton to connect the Kowloon-Canton Railway with the Canton-Hankow Railway. I regard this project as vital to the future of Hongkong, and this view has been shared by all my predecessors in office, from Sir Matthew Nathan onwards, es well as by all Secretaries of State for the Colonies during that period. Sir John Jordan also fully agreed; so did the Foreign Office, and so, I expect, does Sir Ronald Macleay.
I am having a map prepared to illustrate the three suggested locations for the Junction Line, and I will send you a copy in due course. I very much hope that your mission may be able to bring about the completion of this inexpensive, much desired and long delayed project, which would be a boon to Canton as well as to Hongkong, and which, if begun soon, would provide work for the large number of un- employed labourers now alleged to be congregated in Canton. And, after all, though Hongkong and the British section of the Cant on-Kowloon Railway would certainly benefit by the con- struction of the Junction Line, the main benefit would accrue to the people of Canton, to the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and to the Canton-Hankow Railway.
I am,
Yours sincerely,
(sd) C. Clementi
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