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ONFIDENTIAL.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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Re
16 MAY 08,
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Government House,
Hongkong, 10th. April, 1908.
Sir John Jordan, His Majesty's
Minister at Peking has lately been spending a few days in
Hongkong on a private visit to myself, and this has afford-
-ed me an opportunity of discussing several matters of
interest to this Colony.
2.
I have the honour to recall to
Your Lordship's recollection the position of affairs in
respect of the Canton-Hankow Railway. The fact that this
Railway was projected as a continuation of the Canton-
-Kowloon Railway, and to connect it with the existing
Hankow-Peking Line was one of the determining reasons which
decided the Governor and Legislature of this Colony to
embark on the expensive enterprise of building the British
Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, since it was felt
that a line from North to South of China must debouch at
Kowloon if the supremacy of the Port of Hongkong were to
be
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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