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train and a slow train to and from Canton daily.
The disturbed conditions prevailing in
10.
Kwang Tung caused considerable anxiety at times
regarding the safety of through traffic with Canton,
and working arrangements with the Chinese Section of
the line presented many difficulties owing to frequent
interference of the various military factions with the
working of that Section. The unreasonable attitude
of the Canton Labour Unions, and the ever present
danger of molestation by banditti who successfully
broke the track and pillaged local trains on more than
one occasion all added to the troubles of the Chinese
Section.
11.
Notwithstanding these adversities a through
service of trains between Kowloon and Canton was
maintained throughout the year, one express and one slow train being run through each way per day during the first half of the year when arrangements between the two Sections were concluded for British engines to
haul the express trains all the way to Canton.
12.
On June 1st for the first time since the line
was opened a British engine hauled a train through to Canton and from the 20th June onwards two express trains each way daily (with one or two isolated exceptions) were run hauled by British engines.
13. The only interruptions to the Express services were on six days in January in consequence of military interference on the Chinese Section and for three days in connection with an accident near Shek Tan in Chinese
territory, when seven coaches of the morning down
express were derailed owing to inadequate maintenance of
the track.
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