CO129-560-1 Loop-line to link Canton-Kowloon Railway with Canton-Hankow Railway 19-4-1937 - 19-4-1937 — Page 3

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53811/37.

MK.

SECRET.

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30 April, 1937.

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19.2.57.

sir,

I am directed by Mr.Secretary Ormsby Gore

to refer to the letter from this Department of the

9th October, 1936, enclosing a copy of a despatch from

the Governor of Hong Kong, reporting concerning a visit

paid by him to Canton, and to transmit to you, to he

laid before Mr.Secretary Eden, a copy of a further

despatch from the Governor in which he discusses the

question of the connection of the Canton-Kowloon and the

Hankow-Canton Railways.

2. The Secretary of State agrees with the Governor

that the connection of these two railway lines can only

be left to take its own course, and subject to any

observations that Mr. Eden may have to make, but

proposes simply to acknowledge the despatch saying that

it has been read with interest.

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

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