CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 145

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November 12, the newly-established government at Canton

expressed a desire to remuse service. The conditiona

upon which it was suggested this might be done are set forth

in Sir Frederick Lugard's despatch to lir. Harcourt · of

November 21 which likewise quotes the Governor's telogram

asking me to obtain the concurrence of the Imperial Govern-

ment to the proposed arrangement and my reply to His Excel-

lency of November 14. I felt that it would be of little

use to approach the Central Goverment who had lost all

suggesting authority in the Province anxi my object in XXX NIKE that

fwxle should be withdrawable only on the joint signaturea

of the Managing Director, the Engineer-in-Chief and the

Chief Accountant was to strengthen British financial control

over the line and had in view a continuanos of this arrange-

ment in the future. The accompanying despatch from Hie

Injesty's Cosful-General at Canton (llo. 39 of December 28)

whom I had instructed by telegraph in the above sense, atates

that the railway authorities are carrying on their dution

on the linee I had advoanted.

In a despatch dated loveaber 14 Sir F. Lugard

had invited my special attention to the recognition of the

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