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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG.

20th May,1926.

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I have the honour to enclose copy of a

letter dated 17th May, which I have addressed to Lord Willingdon forwarding a short memorandum on the proposed construction of a Junction Line at Canton to connect Kowloon Canton Railway with the Canton Hankow Railway. I attach also a plan illustrating the three suggested locations for this Junction Line.

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Sir F.D.Lagard, when Governor of this Colony, wrote in a confidential despatch, dated the 9th April,1910, addressed to Lord Crewe, then Secretary of State for the Colonies:- "The comection with the Kowloon

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Canton Line with the Canton Hankow Line is, of course, a matter of vital importance to the success of the under- taking" : and on the 27th May,1910, the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office,wrote to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office:- " Lord Crese regards itas a matter of most vital importance to the prosperity of Hong Kong that the Kowloon Canton Railway should be connected with the railway to Hankow ". On the same day Lord Crese authorised the Hong Kong Government, should the Chinese Government be

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S.AMERY, M.P.,

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