1887-1903
HONG KONG, 1903.
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granted to a British syndicate some years ago by the Chinese Government. The development of railway enterprise in other parts of China has, in the opinion of the Government and the entire commercial community, rendered it of paramount importance to the prosperity of Hong Kong that this Colony should be connected by railway with the capital of the Kwangtung Province, which is to be connected by a trunk line with the Yangtse Valley.
I have, &c.,
F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Government.
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