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age 10
6/12/39
Sir G. Northcote (6.5.0.4893/38) —
Does not want the matters held up on
account
of
The
was
10
X
important?
boint with regard to the siting of post major fiers ranchorages.
I look this home
study, ras
with
me
I went sick lam afraid
action on it has been further delayed,
The impression I formed was that,
present
quite apart from the question of the pream
availability of experts to go out
examine the problem,
The situation child
not necessarily demand immediate
one of the principal matters
/The commissioners will have to
action. The
consider is the futwe development rexten-
Sian
of
The port.
in the present voy
thund state of attains in China they
would find it very difficult to assess its requirements. For instance, Japanese success almost certainly means for the attempts to by-pass or throttle the trade of Hong Kong ; it can safely be interred. for vistance, that the Kowloon Canton Railway will never be rebuilt if they
can help
ahead;
it.
1949 is
-
Χ
stikl 9 years
in spite of appearances to the contrary in 1924 The port is still adequate for what is required of it, rarecurrence
boom in its shipping prosperity in
future does not really
of
a
The near future
seem ver
probable, ed In sum,
Inward a certain
amount of stagnation runcertainty might be worth risking for the sake of Choosing a more propitions time for settling
Lon
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