CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 518

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Enclosure No. 2 in Mr. Fraser's Semi-Official of October 12th, 1908..

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IEC 12 1903

TELEGRAM from CHANG CHIH-TUNG, October 10th, 1000.

Prom your two telegrams of October 7th I understand

that you propose to appoint the representative of the

British and Chinese Corporation to come to Peking to nego-

tiate orally. Who is it who is sent, and when may he be

expected?

This line must within four years be continued to the

Kuangtung border. To secure speed it is imperative to push

on the laying down of the railway trace connecting Hunan

and that province, starting from Chu-Chou and ending at Lothing in Fueng tung viền lông Châu, Chiến Chou and I-

Chang, and it is equally necessary as soon as possible to

determine the proper number of sections on which work

should begin simultaneously. St. George Moore, being a

waterworka engineer, could never undertake the job, and

Ross also is "robably not the right man. I propose from

London to engage an engineer of the best qualifications

and greatest experience to serve as Engineor-in-Chief, and

I beg you will promptly recommend me one, so that an agree-

ment may be made with him and everything arranged at an

early date. Anxiously awaiting.

(Signed) CHLANO,

Director-General of Canton-Hankow Railway.