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of through running powers, which is the eyetem adopted by

the various Government railways in China. The Board of

Communications express the hope that the Kongkong dele-

fatos may be instructed to continue negotiations on that

basis.

I took the opportunity of a visit which, I received

a few days ago from Liung Shih-yi, the Director General

of Railways, who has been indisposed for over a month, to

refer again to the question of the Working Agreement and

I repeated the arguments which I had embodied in my memo-

randum in favour of joint management of the two sectiore.

I further said that there was another point of paramount

importance to both sections of the Canton-Kowloon railway,

and that was a connection with the Canton-lankow railway.

I thought it more prudent to avoid all mention of a posc-

ible loan from the Kongkong Government for this purpoɛe.

Liang Shih-yi assured me that the Board of Communications

were fully alive to the absolute necessity of making the

short connecting link between the Canton-Kowloon and the

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Canton-Hankow railways in the interest of their own lines.

He had made the necessary arrangemente for the construction

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