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Partners, of which a copy was received in your Confidential

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Despatch of the 28th. of that month, that the decision of

the route to be adopted is left to me for definite settle-

-ment, I have decided that the Railway shall follow general-

-ly the line referred to by Mr. Bruce in his report as No.l

Railway. Mr. W. Chatham, Director of Public Works who was

originally in favour of the West route is now entirely in

accord with the above decision.

Mr. Bruce's

Some details of his proposals

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require further consideration. I am doubtful whether,

if

the line becomes as it is intended to become, a continua-

-tion of one from Canton to our frontier, the station at

the Lo Fu Ferry is necessary. In the same circumstances

further provision will require to be made for machinery

shops near the Kowloon terminus. The question of the ex-

-tent and nature of the reclamation for that terminus is

also one that requires careful working out and this matter

I have placed in the hands of Mr. J. F. Boulton, Senior

Executive Engineer in the Public Works Department and

formerly the Engineer of the Praya Reclamation Works.

Ar-

-rangements for the early commencement of work on the

Railway need not however wait the settlement of any of

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these