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According as the anchorage for the ocean steamships ie fixed in the Northern arm or Southern arm of the Pearl River such warenouses would be built either on the Whampoa Island or on Danes Island and if these could be put by a regular system of vehicular communication in connection with the Cant on settlement then intercourse between steamer and office would follow in an easy and practical fashion,
The funds for building such storehouses ought to be easily found by the organising of a Warehouse Company which might find sunport also from the Chinese Government by a concession of the ground and site free of cost.
The question may now be raised whether it is desirable to establish the new Colony there the steamers discharge their cargoes, that is, in Whampoa. This does not appear practical on carefu consideration. In spite of the passenger boet connection, at a distance of about ten sea miles from the Chinese town of Canton, one would be too far from Merchants and business people to be able to depend on intercourse with them with the same ease 23 from Shameen.
It is also necessary for us to be quite near Canton City to ensure that the Chinese traders may resort as freely and willingly
On Shame en there is not room to the Germans as to the English.
as the district will be filled by the English and French Settlement. It cannot be recommended that we should dwell among nations inimical to us.
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A settlement on the Island Honan where formerly foreigners had their houses, cannot be considered as there the intercourse with the Chinese traders woul be too much hindered on account of For the same reason there can be no the crossing of the river. question of a settlement on Fati, as formerly suggested place for the German colony ought to be on the same side of the river as Benton, below the Chinese torn and to the East of it, where free or at least cheap land is stil. to ɔe had; in that case it might be made free by the Chinese Government for such objects. One need not fear being cut off too much nere from the Chinese town for at the present day there is along the river bank a wide car- riage road to the Custom House and the landing stage of the Hong In addition there is Kong steamers, eventually even a tramway.
no doubt that a special Customs Office for the declaring of goods inwards and outwards and payment of dues will be set up.
As respects hygiene t .e inhaäitants will certainly not be worse off then the inhabitants of Shameen perhaps better, as not Under all circum- surrounded on all sides by the Chinese town. stances it would not be necessary to meke always a long journey through the Chinese town in order to get into the open country
It might even be considered
as is necessary rom Shameen,
hether the new settlement on the river should be built only for business purposes and the dwelling houses for the Germans built on the slopes of the White Cloud Mountains which are only about 6 to 8 kilometres from the river shore, as the crow flies,
These
and this particularly if an electric tramvay was made. mountains rise to a height of 1,200 English feet, are partly wooded and give their inhabitants good air and fresh water.
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