CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 117

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

No. 1826 (4/125)

BRITISH LEGATION PEKING.

Copy

Copy to:

sir,

Janton, Hongkong.

129

19th December, 1929.

Regulations

I have the honour to report that a

Central Government Mandate dated November 5th

was promulgatad in the Gazette of the following

day directing that the Canton Hankow Railway,

Kuangtung seotion, which was constructed mainly

by private Chinese enterprise, should be nation-

alised, and ordering the Ministry of Railways to

issue a public loan for the redemption within a

fixed time limit of the privately held shares.

A few days later the Gazette (of November 18th)

published the regulations governing the issue of

the new Canton Hankow (Kuangtung Section) railway

redemption bonds. A oopy, in translation, of

these regulations is enclosed herewith.

It will

be noted that the bond issue is limited to

The Right Honourable Arthur Henderson, X.7.,

eta.,

eto..

POREIGN OFFICE.

$20,000,000 ...

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