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I am confidentially informed that the

administration of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway are experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining

the land required for railway purposes.

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are, therefore,

Article VII of the Loan Agreement states

that the necessary land shall be acquired by the Viceroy, but as

the control of the line has been taken away from the Viceroy

and placed in the hands of a Director-General in Peking, the

former official, not unnaturally, declines to afford the

administration any assistance in the matter. The local officials

taking their one from the Viceroy, adopt a similar attitude and

refuse to bring any pressure to bear on native owners to make

them surrender their land. The administration

obliged to make the best terms they can, with the result that

land is being acquired very slowly and in most cases at exor-

-bitant rates. Not only are they being charged at an average

rate of over $100 a mou for land which is, for the most part,

waste ground, but they are often forced to buy land they do

not require. In one case where the line runs through the

outskirts of a small village, necessitating the removal of a

few houses, the administration have been obliged by the local

gentry to buy up the whole village.

Ir. Grove, the Engineer-in-Chief of the

line, to whom I am indebted for this information, estimates that

at the present rate of purchase a sum of not less than

£120,000 will be required on this account, and he fears that

this unexpectedly heavy expenditure will make it impossible

for him to construct the line for the sum originally agreed

upon.

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