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Minutes of Meeting to discuss the question of the Joint Working

of the British and Chinese Sections of the Kowloon➡

-Canton Railway, held in the Council Chari-

-ber at Hongkong on the 5th.

July, 1910.

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Mr. Wai Fan, Mr. Ewok Fung-i, Mr. B. S. Lindsay

and Yr. C. Clementi.

Mr.

Wei Han informed us that, as arranged at

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our meeting on the 7th. ultimo, he hnd telegraphed the pro-

-posals made by us to the Board of Communications at Poking: that the Board had replied objecting to joint management and

had instructed him to press for separate management and running

powers, 1.8. that passongers and goods should through Fron

one section to the other in the 32no carriages, the engines only being changed, and that each section should pay the other a fix- -ed price per mile for running over the other's line. To asked

Mr. Mai what were the objections of the Board to joint manage-

ent. He replied that they had given no reasons, but xkas had

instructed him that he must only negotiate on the lines of soparate management: that, speaking for himself, he fully re- -cognized that joint management was the best and most business- -like mathod and would be advantageous to both sections, but he

thought that the Board's objection was really political and due

to the distrust of the foreigner now rife in China.

We replied that we were unable to enter into

any discussion of aeparato management, and pointed out that,

at a meeting held in the British Consulate-General in Canton on

the 18th. Dacombor, 1905, at which tr. C. H. Rosa, representing the British and Chinese Corporation, Taotai Wến Toung-yao, tho Viceroy's Foreign Secretary, and Vice-Consul Tebbitt were

prosent, the "Homorandum re Proposed Agreement between the

Government of Wongkong and the Chinese Government for the

workingTM