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Conton, November lat. 1913.
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Nota en the question of the connecting lins fro
the Canton Kowloon Railway, Chinnse Section, Canton, to the Yush Han Railway Company's Line.
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The length of the gamecting link would be 44 miles, The would be single and branch off fram the Unnton Kowloon Railway `qgahan and join with the Yush Han Railway at Sai Chuan passing
a 'lorth of the City. The cost of construction should not stoand per mile, earthwork being light and culverts fov, and this hould include cost of len. For the greater part the line
over rios fields and many graven should not be required to be
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The writer received on October 1st.. 1919, a copy of a jespatch from the Railway Bureau, Pekin, to the Managing Director of
Canton Kowloon Hinilway, it ran as follows:-
"I have received instructions from the President of the Board
to the effect that as this Canton Kowloon Railway will sportly be opened to traffic it is essential to have the line connected with the South end of the Yuch Him Railwy with the expectation of a daily increuse of passenger and goods traffic. Besides giving instructions to the Yush
Hon Railway to set accordingly, I write this to you for
your information".
les of the despatch with accompanying instructions to the Yush Han Iway are attached herato.
This despotok confirmed the decision conveyed verbally to writer by H. 3. Liang Shih Yi, Director General of Rrilways when hspecting the line during April of 1910.
As his (Li^ng Chih Yi's) request, pl'ms previously prepared ◄ writer were made over tæmporarily to the Yugh Han Railway and arther survey work was done by their staff in 1910 and 1911. as worą duly returned. A rumour re-ched the writer early in
the land widths were marked out and that some opposition to of land had a curred at the Sai Chuen end. Since then
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