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Colonial Secretary's Office,

Ref 27 MY Hongkong, 10th. February, 1911.

Dear Mr. Chao Ching-hua,

I have the honour to acknowledge your last

letter received in this department on the 18th. ultimo and Mr.

Lindsey and I have noted that the Chinese Government agree that

the number of carriages to be provided for through traffic by

the British and Chinese Sections should be in accordance with

the mileage of the respective Sections, i.e. in the proportion

of one to four. The Hongkong Government proposes accordingly to

at once place an order for one additional locomotive and 8

carriages and I am to express the hope that the Imperial Chinese

Section will also lose no time in obtaining such additional roll-

-ing-stock as is necessary to insure that when the line opens

for through traffic it will be adequately equipped in this

respect.

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We regret that His Excellency Liang Shih-yi

still thinks that Engines must be changed at Sham Chun, but, so long as your Section provides an Ingine there to take on the

express trains from Hongkong without delay it is possible that this arrangement may (temporarily at any rate) prove feasible.

We consider, however, that as traffic develops the arrangement

will be found to be both uneconomical and a cause of unnecessary

delay having regard both to the limitation of the Engine run and

to the upkeep of a Locomotive-changing-station so close to the

Hongkong Terminus: and, as we can see no reason why either

Engine or Train-staff should change, we trust that upon re-

-consideration your Section will be ready to modify its views in

this respect in the interest of fast traffic and economical

working.

is, Hong Ching-hua,

Managing Director of the Imperial

Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railwal, Canton.

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