CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 689

C.O.

42110

FRINTED

FOR

USE

EASTERN

) (Paraphrase of Telegrame

to 88 LONIAL OFFI

Tho..

RE?

17 MOV 06

685

From Governor Sir M.Nathan to Mr Lyttelton.

(Received, Coiental Office, 4.35 p.m.(25th November, 1905)

I will reply in a few days to your

※

telegram of 22nd November which requires much considera- tion. This Government's object is to secure that Hong Kong remains the port of any railway running to Canton and any foreign influence or interest in such

At the same a railway might militate against this. time the completion of the Canton Hankow railway by the time that the Canton Kowloon line is finished would

be advantageous.

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