CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 40

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No.

and address

4323/33/10.

not to any person by name,

but to-

**The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, 8.W.1.

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

9 th September 1925.

Sir:-

Mo

39937

I am directed by Mr. Segretary Chamberlain to

acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 37937/26

of the 1st instant, transmitting copies of corres-

pondence with the British and Chinese Corporation

Limited in regard to the Canton Kowloon Railway and

to inform you that he concurs in the terms of the

reply which Mr. Amery proposes to address to the

corporation.

2. Mr. Chamberlain agrees that, as regards through

traffic on the line, the negotiation of some modus

vivendi must await the restoration of settled con-

ditions in Kwang tung and in China generally. In

his opinion the Canton authorities would not, in

their present temper, entertain any reasoněble

suggestions much less a proposal involving the ex-

tension of the influence of the Hongkong Railway

Administration over the Chinese section of the line.

I am,

3ir,

Your obedient Servant,

The Under-eoretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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