comes its rih sitee of
Completion or Japantase of railway line
xtoneral.
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17th Horah, 1
dovernor Hong No.51
Trede Commissioner, Hengkong No. 16
sir,
#ith reference to my despatch 3.817 of ård
Dreambar, 1958 on the subject or the
port of hapoa
elopment of tho
Ihrve the honour to report that Thava
le rned from a most trustworthy source that the Japanese
nara alr
odo railway 11ne connecting the Conton-
**l on line with the site of the proposed shampoa kort
1
velopment
xiato no
root rollnny
ton botson denko.
intention or the chinen was to link the port
with the Yuch Han Rullway ny none of an axtonion of tho
existing loop line which Joino the Conton-forloon track 8
kilometres fros
Conton torninue. The proposed link
with hampoo wan to novo Left the loop line just ovす!
ro the function with the
kilometre
have
loon line and to
tinued in an angerly atreetlon for two kilometr砂糖
before turning to the south and being enrried by a bridge
rer the owloon line ot kilometre 9+360,900, thence continu-
ing in a general easterly and south-easterly direction along
nampoa motor road forn
before reaching thampoe itself.
rther nine or ten kilometres
enoabkaent for this
hinose but no rolle
conineering 11no had coen completed by the
0.
The link with "hampos which the Japanese høve just
cplated leaves the
20f Kilometrea
⠀ als zxcellency
conton terminus of the Kouloon-cont
ritish mORSEY,