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wishes me to place on record the importance which his
Government attach to the execution at an early date of
measures calculated to place the Chinese section on a
sound basis.
I have the honour to enclose for the information of
the competent department of Your xeellenoy' a nevarnaant
a statement of the improvements and repaire which in the
opinion or the Government of Hong Kong are required on
of
the Chinese section in order to increase the earnings of
the whole line to their full capacity. It will be seen
from the mclosed statement that disproportionate dalla
have recently been made upon the British section of the
railway to provide locomotives and coaching stock to
meet the requirements of through-traffie over the whole
line, and that even so the extra 100omotives and coaches
provided by the British section cannot be exploited to
their full earning capacity for the benefit of the joint
parse of the railway owing to defects in the track on the
Chinese section.
5.
In the circumstances I should be grateful if Your Ex-
cellency would call the serious attention of the Ministry
of Railways to the needs of the Canton-Kowloon line and re-
quest that the necessary meŭsures of rehabilitation on
Chinese section may be undertaken as soon as possible in
order to place this joint Sine-British enterprise on a
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