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Form C.R.E. No. 7.

13 REFERRING TO JUIS LETTEN PLEASK QUOIN THE FOLLOWING

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Enclosure 2.

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KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY. 25555

BRITISH SECTION.

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RrGE 19 AUG 10

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To the honourable,

The woloud d "eorotu"",

sir,

Chief Resident Engineer's Office,

Kowloon.

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Dated,

10th July 1910.

in accordance with dis excellency's instructions I havo

the honour to report as follows:-

1. There are three proposals relative to the woring of the

British and “hinese section of the "ailway now in course of

construction between Lowloon and Yanton.

2. The first of these has been embodied in the draft working

Agrecliant, a copy of which has been handed to kr. #ei Han.

Briefly it provides for the working of the two sections of the

Railway as one undertaking, under one management responsible

to a Board of Vontrol composed of members appointed by the two

Governments. working expenses to be divided in proportion of

the ton miles worked on either Section. ksoh Pection to be

allowed to keep any increase of rate above the normal or pre-

valent rate of the vhinese Pection, whenever it is possible

to impose it owing to there being no oaspetition; and after

apportioning to each “action its dues in respot of terminals

and other services, to divide the balance of gross receipta

in such a way as to insure the writish “aotion receiving a

compensation for the extra coat of Vonstruction, wnion the nature

of the country in its Pection is responsible for, and which

practically amounts to a division of two-fifths to the #ritish

and three-fifths to the Chinese.

3.

The second proposal is to run the two Sections as separate

concerns

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