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Railway.
It strikee off towards the South Gast but a 200
turns to the south at and reaches Champos in a distance
of about 4 ilometres.
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It is clear that the Japanese have built with an
eye chiefly to speed of constraction chosing the shorteat
possible route, for although embankments re e completed on
the previously planned line, the bridge at Kilometres 9+380.900
has not been built, nor is there any steel buil ing material
in Canton. In talk with Major Street, oritish Engineer in
hier of he hinese lection of the Fowloon-Centon Railway,
I raised the point that the new link woul, in the case of an
eventual re-opening of the owlo n-nton silway entail a
auble 8e of no less than 11 kilometres of the main line
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which the originally planned link was specifically designed
to evold, but he assure me tha norm1 traffic is not s0
heavy that a time table to arrange to handle both streams
of traffic could not easily be arranged,
I have the honour to be,
Your excellency'a moet obedient, humble servant,
(agd.) A.I. BLUNT
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