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RECEIVED
19 NOV 1929
721
COL. CFFICE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG
16th October, 1929.
My Lord,
I have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's
information the enclosed copy of a letter (with enclosures)
which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister, Peking,
on the subject of the rehabilitation of the Chinese
section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
2.
Mr. J.K. Choy is Chief of the Administration
Department of the Chinese Ministry of Railways. He
called on Sir Cecil Clementi on the 3rd of September, 1929,
while passing through the Colony on his way to Europe,
and discussed Southern Chinese Railways in general and
the Kowloon-Canton Line in particular. Mr. Choy, who
professed to be speaking with the full authority of the
Minister of Railways (Mr. Sun Fo ), did not at the
interview deal in any detail with the rehabilitation of
this line, attention being concentrated rather on its
connection to the Canton-Hankow Line and the completion of
that road. But on the 9th of September, 1929, a letter
was received from Mr. Choy, containing his version of the
conversation and on the matter of rehabilitation the memorandum
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C., &c.,
&C.
stated