CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 133

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Sir,

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H.B.M. Consulate General,

Canton.

20th December, 1929.

I beg to inform you that yesterday I followed up my

letters and three interviews with the Commissioner for Foreign

Affairs regarding sabotage on the Chinese Section of the Canton-

Kowloon Railway by calling on His Excellency the Chairman of

the Provincial Government of Kwangtung. I invited his attention

to the gravity of the menace to the Railway, recounting that

since my written request that adequate protection should be

afforded after the attempted sabotage at Km.31%, severe damage

had been suffered through explosions to Bridges 85 and 66. I

pointed out that the prestige of his Government, its communica-

tions and its finances demanded urgent attention to the situa-

tion.

2.

His Excellency replied that he much regretted the

acts of sabotage, which he attributed to guerilla every bands

who had taken advantage of the fact that all available troops

had been thrown into the fighting line at a critical moment.

He assured me that the situation was engaging his serious

attention and that he had detailed two Battalions to guard the

Railway. He regretted that owing to the military menace to

Canton he had not been able to spare these troops to guard

the Railway before.

I am,

etc.,

(Sd.) G.S. Moss.

Acting Consul-General.

W.M. Stratton, Esq.,

etc., etc., etc.,

The Engineer-in-Chief,

The Canton-Kowloon Railway, Chinese Section,

Tungshan,

Canton.