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Yr. Yih Kung cho
sir,
Conclosure 2.
Vice-Minister of Commmications,
Chiso rung P
Peking
2nd. February, 1915.
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In accordance with my promise when I saw you before
leaving Peking. I now have the honour to submit to you a shart report
on the conditions prevailing on the Canton Kowloon Railway.
Generally, I find the Railway in a very efficient
state and the whole of the staff appears to work together well without any fraction.
The Works of the line are all in good order with the
exception of the bridge at Wu Chung which is now under repair and will
shortly be completed. This bridge and another at Nam Kong were serious- -ly damaged during a heavy flood last summer, the cause of the disas- -ter being the faulty design of the foundations, no allowance having
been made for the probable scouring out of the sandy bed of the
streams.
When these are repaird there seems to be little
likelihood of any similar accident on any other part of the line.
One serious drawback from which the Railway is
suffering is the disturbed and lawless state of many of the country
districts.
In places the Permanent Tay gangs are unable to
live in the huts built for them near their work owing to their having
been several times attacked by gangs of robbers at night, and you
have no doubt been informed of actual raids on stations which took
place before my arrival in Canton.
In connection with this question I must allude to the impunity with which trespassers make use of the railway. This
may seem a small matter but the damage done, particularly by buffaloes in wet weather in cutting up the formation and tearing down the stone
pitching
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