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Enclosure in Mr Max Muller's No. 315 of

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September 11, 1910.

Wai Wu Pu to H. M. Charge d'Affaires.

Memorandum of September 8.

The Board have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Mr. Max Muller's memorandum with reference to the arrangement of a Joint Working Agreement for the British and Chinese sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

The Tai Wu Pu at once wrote to the Board of Communica-

-tions and are now in receipt of the following reply:-

"The conditions in respect to the British and Chinese

sections of the Canton-Kowloon Railway are quite different. The

former section was constructed by Great Britain from its own

funds; the latter section was constructed by China from the

proceeds of a loan. Moreover the boundaries of the two sections

are quite distinct. The only possible arrangement is to

negotiate a procedure for Joint Working, and the draft of an

agreement in this sense has already been propared and sent to

Tactel Wei Han for joint consideration between himself and the

delegate appointed by the Government of Hongkong. In addition,

we forward herewith a memorandum with a request that your Board

will forward it to His Majesty's Minister in Feking."

The contents of this memorandum are as follows:-

"There are countless objections to joint management

(of the two sections) and the Board of Communications have

repeatedly issued instructions to the General Manager, „r. Wei

Han, to make representations to this effect to the delegate of

the Hongkong Government. Provided suitable arrangements are made

with regard to through traffic on the British and Chinese

sections, the expansion of trade will in no way be arrested.

The question of the detriment, or the reverse, of the general prosperity of the country through which the line runs is not solely dependent on joint management, but on quite other conditions; this question, moreover, is one for which the responsibility properly lies with the management of the railway,

and

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