CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 232

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As for the circumstances and context which gire added menace Hong Kong, to the contract, the following facts are significant.

a British crow colony, lies directly opposite the river upon which Canton is situated. It is the port of expert and laport for the vast districts served by the mines and railmys of the

province. It is unnecessary te peint out the hold upen all economic development which is given through a monopolistic control of coal, It is hardly too much to say that the enforcement of the

in Hong Kong te control contract would enable British interests the entire industrich development of the most flourishing of the provinces of China, It would be a comparatively easy and in- expensive matter to previde the main land with a first clags

But such a port would tend to modern harbor and port near Canton, reduce the assets of Hong Kong to the possession of the most

There is already fear that a new beautiful sommery in the world, harbor will be built. Kany persons think that the concession of building such railways ato., "as are deemed advisable for the purpose of the business of the company and to improve those now existing" is the object of the contract, even more than the coal monopoly. For the British already own a considerable part of the maihtand, including part of the railway connecting the litteral with Canton. By building a cross-cut from the British owned portion of this railway to the Rankov-Canton line, the latter woul become virtually the Hankow-Hongkong line, and Canton would be a way-station, With the advantages thus secured, the project for building a new port could be indefinitely blocked,

During the period in which the contract was being seaured,

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