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the consideration of this project: but on the 4th April 1923,
Sir JW. Jamieson, then Consul General at Canton, reported to His Majesty's Minister at Peking that Dr. Sun Yat-sen had, "since his return taken up the question of constructing the comecting link between the Canton Kowloon and the Yueh Han railway lines with a whole-hearted intention of pushing it through as speedily as possible, and has with that and in view addressed various public bodies". An attempt was then made by my predecessor, Sir R.E.Stubbs, to arrange that the immediate construction of this junction line should be financed by means of a loan from the British and Chinese Corporation on terms similar to those under which the Chinese Section of the Kowloon Canton Railway had been constructed, the money for the purchase of the necessary land to be paid to the Canton Government as the land was handed over. Sir R.E.Stubbs further recomended that a private guarantee should be given by the Hong Kong Goverment to the Corporation as additional security for the loan. This proposal failed owing to the hostility between the Peking and the Canton Governments, it being considered by the Foreign Office that the need for immediate cash advances was the principal, if not the sole, motive actuating Dr. Sun Yat-sen in regard to the junction line, and that the Peking Government would naturally refuse its consent to a scheme involving supplies of free money for Dr. Sun (letter No. F.1452/930/10 of 23rd May, 1923, from Under
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Nothing further was done until the 6th
Gov 316426 ammary last I touched upon this matter in conversation
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with Mr. Sung Tax-man, and on the 8th January in talk with
Sun Fo, regarding the anti-British boycott in Kuang-tung. Please see my secret despatches of 7th January and 8th
January. I then pointed out that the activities of the
Canton
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