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Extract from Note of a Conversation with Mr. T. V. Soong
on March 18th, 1956.
Whenpoe Port. I asked whether it was true that the
Minister of Failways had agreed to provide money for this
scheme. oong said that he believed that some small amount
had been oromised. The "hampoa could never be made into a
deep water nort but it might enable small vessels to load
there. He did not think that in return the Canton Government
would agree to link up the Kowloon and the Hankow Railways.
This was becoming a matter of solitics and it might take
years to get it settled. The Centon Government had now
informed Manking that they would not agree to one General
Vanager for the whole Canton-Hankow Railway. They inasited
on appointing a General Manager for the Kwangtung part of
the line. It was not merely the patronage that they
wanted; it was military security: unless they had their
own "anager, they were afraid that one day some Divisions
of the Central Government troops might suddenly appear
at Canton.