CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11] — Page 27

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In continuation of my despatch No. 268 of the 5th. ultimo, I have the honour to transmit herewith a translation of the reply of the Chinese Government to my request that the Board of Communications should accept the principle of joint management as the basis of the negotiations for a joint working agreement of the two sections of the Canton-Kowloon

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It will be seen that the Board of Corranica- -tions for various reasons refuse to entertain the proposal of

joint management and have forwarded to Mr. Wei Han, who is to

continue the negotiations pending the arrival of his successor

in the post of General Manager of the Chinese Section, Mr. Shih Chao-tseng, a director of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, counter- -proposals based on the principle of through running powers,

which is the syston adopted by the various Goverment Railways in China. The Board of Communications express the hope that the Hongkong delegates may be instructed to continue negotiations

on that basis.

I took the opportunity of a visit which I

received a few days ago from Liang Shih-yi, the Director-

-General of Railways, who has been indisposed for over a

month, to rofer again to the question of the Working Agreement

and I repeated the arguments which I had embodied in my nonoran-

-dum in favour of joint management of the two sections. I

further said that there was another point of paramount import-

-ance to both sections of the Canton-Kowicon Railway, and that

was a connection with the Canton-Hankow Railway. I thought it

more prudent to avoid all mention of a possible loan from the

Hongkong Government for this purpose. Liang Shih-i assure d

me that the Board of Communications were fully alive to the

absoluto necessity of making the short connecting link between

the