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approved plans and estimates for the development of

the port of Whampoa.

Ir. Choy said that there were,

and that the cost is estimated at 20 million dollars.

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I asked if I might be furnished with the plans and

estimates, and Ir. Choy undertook that he would have

this done. He has today telegraphed to 1r. Sun Fo

asking that the Whampoa plan should be sent to me.

Mr. Choy further said that the estimated cost of

completing the Canton-Hankow line would be 65 million

dollars, and that the existing portions of this line

were in such bad order that their rehabilitation would

be necessary, for which purpose at least another five million dollars would be necessary. He further said

that the rehabilitation of the Chinese section of

the Canton-Kowloon railway would have to be under taken

and that the cost of doing. so would be four million dollars, in which sum, however, he included provision

for building feeder lines, some to be motor roads

and some to be railroad extensions, on both sides of

the present main line. Thus the total cost of the

schemes put before me by Ir. Choy would, according to

his estimate amount to a sum of 94 million dollars,

excluding the cost of the loop-line at Canton, for

which he gave me no estimate.

5. The Government of Hong Kong is, of course, keenly interested in all the matters, which Ir. Choy touched upon.

As regards the rehabilitation of the

Chinese section of the Kowloon-Canton railway, I

may. refer you to the correspondence ending with my

telegram