CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 204

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of this desirable conmmation.

Monae had arisen

sisunderstantings, and on his side parhapa an fapes2-

sion that we were to him sa an tretividual hog÷114.

his I said was by no means the tain and I hinsed that

we might be the dämonent viosina of“ alerozrosentation,

sa for instance in the matter of the story spread

abrand that jealousy on the part of Bangkong formad

an obstacle to the extension of harbour worka að

hampon and to the construction of railways in the

elta. To prove to him how unfounded wara mich ab*10-

ments I nited Article ▼ of the Tankay Treaty desling

wish the "antan river and harbour, produced a blue

print of the original key plan of the lanton Kovinon

kailway which makes provision for a branch line from

a point ton miles below Taton to the river bark op-

posite to "hampon, and also referred him to the ostn=

zorionl denial of the aristanna of a asorat agrenzent

between Brand Britain and Mine, „rehisiting the con-

further

stration af/railway lines in the wita or elsewhere

in the provinse made by the Thairman of the Hongkong

and Phanghai Bank an Yebruary 24th, 1 mphasized the

fans that any atapa taken for incrassing tha traie of

“ankan souli nat but roast favourably on Hongkong, but

I deprecated, in the interests of economy and of the

provincial budges the borrowing of money for the pur-

pose oo GIOCmuting large works at 'haupos until the

Conservancy Board had the Test River under domplete

control, as the arratio currents and floods of the

lattor might at any monet seriously lapair the

utility of the foraar. I then went on to refer to the

atrevidous attmpts we had made in the paat to get the

Janton Kowloon Hallway linket up with the Yash-flan

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