13.
14.
Along this railway from Haiphong, 500 tons of war
material and petrol proceed almost every day to
Yunnanfu in the interior of China, it is asserted.
Several months ago it was announced that a group
of French banks had agreed to provide the backing for the construction of a railway from French Indo-China to Nanning
in Kwangsi Province.
15.
16.
The Railway will be an extension of the existing
line from the interior of Indo-China to the Chinese frontier.
The new railway assumes greater importance with the Japanese attempts to sever the Kowloon-Canton railway, and also by the report that in case of emergency the Chinese
Government at Hankow would very probably be transferred
to Yunnanfu.
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(Extract from THE STRAITS BUDGET No. 4193 dated June 23rd, 1938).