CANT OF - HANKOW BAILWAY (HUPEK-HUNAN SECTION), report
14
CU_Y.
Yo.13.
(and three copies).
Copy to: Diplomatic Mission (No.13).
Report by Mr. Reeves
Report by
Fr. Sten.
Ganton.
Changsha.
Military Attache,
R. A. Y.
Britian Jonsulate-General,
Commercial Counsellor (No.10).
sir,
Hankow,
19th March, 1936.
On the 13th instant I deputed Mr. Vice-Consul
IP. Reeven to accompany Mr. Calder-Farshall and Mr.
Dick Vong of the Pinghan Railway on their cursory inspection of the Wuchong Depôt of the Wuchang-
Changsha section of the Centon-Hankow Railway, Calder-arshall being interested on behalf of the
Boxer Indemnity Commission. I enclose an extract
from Mr. Reeves's repert. This confirmed my own impressions of the existing state of affairs and was
so deplorable that I requested Mr. J.C. Bteen, the
nominal Aoting Engineer-in-Chief of the line to
furnish me with a brief Statement of the position
in his ow words. I enclose Hr. Steen's Statement
marked "confidential" owing to the delicacy of his
own position, which is explained in the preface.
/ 2.
His Excellency
The Honourable Sir Alexander Cadogan, K.0.M.G., C.B.,
His Majesty's Ambassador,
Peking.