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Enclosure No.2 in No.212 (Vonfidential) to Foreign Office

of April 3rd., 1923.

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of conversation with Mr. Liang 1h vi at longkong.

March 16th., 1923. Communicated by Mr. SF, Mayers,

I told Kr.Liang of my recent visit to Canton

And of my conversation with Dr. Sun Yat-sen on the subject

of linking in the Canton Mowloon Railway with the Yeh

Tan ilway, *T. Linne seid that this work should be

undertaken, and asked me how much it was estimated to cost.

I replied that until a final survey had been made through

the north of the city, which was the route advocated by

Mr. Boothby, we could not say how much money would be

required. r. Boothby had mentioned to me a total of about

$ 2,000,000, Mr. Liang thought this would not be sufficiert Purchase of land and removal of buildings, ancestral

temmles etc, along that route would cost a great deal and we could not hope to effect anything without allowing

a margin of free money for the Canton Government of the moment, whether it be held by Dr. Sun or anyone else. Thoever tried to establish himself in Canton must have

money to live uron, The was surorised that we did not aim higher than a mare linking up of the two railways.

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