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Mr. E. J. Harding.

Mr. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh,

X Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clareulon.

Mr. Amery.

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Confidential

Urgent

Sir,

Gov. 12714/26 HK

Ind

U.S. of S.

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19 JUL

20 July 1926

498

With reference to previous correspondence

on the subject of the allocation of the Boxer Indemnity funds under the control of H.M.G., I am etc. to transmit to you, to be laid before Sec. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the accompanying copy of a

secret despatch from Sir C.Clementi, dated the 204

May, in which he expresses the earnest hope that a grant may be made from Boxer Indemnity funds for

the construction of a junction line at Canton to connect the Canton-Kowloon Railway with the Canton- Hankow railway.

2. The extreme importance of this connection, both to Hong Kong and to British interests generally, SAMS

has always been recognised Sir Austen Chamberlain will be aware that continual attempts were made,

both before the construction of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway and during the subsequent negotiations for

a working agreement covering the British and Chinese

sections of that Railway, to arrive at a satisfactory

arrangement with the Peking and Canton Govts. for the

construction of the junction line. With the outbreak

of the war the project fell into abeyance and the

political confusion in China during the last few