53838/24/38.
Colonial office,
Downing Street, S.W.1.
6 February, 1939.
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My dear Northcote,
Thank you for your letter of the 24th
of December enclosing a copy of a letter you sent to
Blunt at Canton on the subject of the Canton-Kowloon
railway.
We are in general agreement with your
views on this subject, and approve of your doing what
you think expedient to facilitate the re-opening of
the railway, without going so far as to press the
matter formally on the Japanese authorities.
Yours sincerely,
SIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE,K.C.M.G.
Jd. R. Cowell
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