CO129-519-6 Development of railways proposed by Chinese Government 7-9-1929 - 17-1-1930 — Page 21

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19 NOV 1929

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COL. CFFICE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

16th October, 1929.

My Lord,

I have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's

information the enclosed copy of a letter (with enclosures)

which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister, Peking,

on the subject of the rehabilitation of the Chinese

section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

2.

Mr. J.K. Choy is Chief of the Administration

Department of the Chinese Ministry of Railways. He

called on Sir Cecil Clementi on the 3rd of September, 1929,

while passing through the Colony on his way to Europe,

and discussed Southern Chinese Railways in general and

the Kowloon-Canton Line in particular. Mr. Choy, who

professed to be speaking with the full authority of the

Minister of Railways (Mr. Sun Fo ), did not at the

interview deal in any detail with the rehabilitation of

this line, attention being concentrated rather on its

connection to the Canton-Hankow Line and the completion of

that road. But on the 9th of September, 1929, a letter

was received from Mr. Choy, containing his version of the

conversation and on the matter of rehabilitation the memorandum

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,

LORD PASSFIELD,

&C., &c.,

&C.

stated