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No. 4.
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Secretary of State
No.3. Peking No.5.
Sir,
Government House,
Hong Kong, 2nd January, 1930
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I have the honour to refer you to my letter of 6th November, 1929, to Mis pritannic Majesty's Minister,
reking, a copy of which was sent to you on the same date, on
the subject of outstanding clains against the Chinese section
of the Lowloon-Canton Railway, and to request that you will,
in view of the events subsequent to that date, direct the
serious attention of the Canton Government to the constantly
recurring acts of deliberate damage to the Chinesc section of
the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which cause scrious loss of revenue
to this Government by suspending through traffic as well as
by general interference with the normal and legitimate trade
between Hong Kong and Canton.
2.
On the 9th May this year, the big bridge at Shiek
T'an (11) was blown up by Canton Goverment troops and
traffic was consequently suspended until the 26th ....ay.
On the 10th of December a 20-lbs. charge of
dynamite connected with a battery was found on the linc between tha Tsun (4) and Lun Tong (±).
On the 13th December a big bridge at blick la
(Z) ) (No.35) was blown up, causing serious damage and the
suspension of the train service again for an indefinite
period. In this case the ends of two of the three w-ft.
steel spans were practically destroyed where bearing on tuo
second pier.
lis britannic Lajesty's Cowul-General,
CARTON.
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