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Sub-Enclosure in Canton despatch to Peking No. 93 of 6th July, 1934.
TRANSLATION
CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION
Order No. 1520
An order transmitting for information the text of a
telegram issued by the City Chamber of Commerce protesting against
the joining of rail between Canton-Kowloon Railway and Yueh-han
Railway.
Issued to
The Fngineering Department.
The following circular telegram, dated the 21st, issued
by the Canton City Chamber of Commerce, has been received:-
"For the past few days, various newspapers in Canton
and Hong Kong reported that the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Hong
Kong, planning the revival of trade in Hong Kong proposes to apply
to the Kwangtung Government for the joining of rail between the
Canton-Kowloon and Canton-Hankow Railways. On reading these
reporta, we are greatly surprised. When the Canton-Kowloon
Railway was first planned, it was intended to join rail with the
Canton-Hankow Line. The chief station of that railway
(the C.K.R) was first fixed at the neighbourhood of Eung Wo Sze,
Tungahan, for the purpose of future linking up. Subsequently.
because the problem of joining rail was obstructive to the
commercial development of Canton, a change was immediately made,
and the Canton chief station was placed at Taishatou, thus
making it clear that there would be no ground for the joining
of rail.
In 1918 a foreign engineer again undertook surveys from
Tungshan, along the back of shiu Pak and the Koonyam Hill to the
Canton-Hankow chief station at Wongsha. The joining of rail,
though
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