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Enclosure 2 in Canton despatch to Hong Kong No.65 of 14th August, 1937.

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THE WHAMPOA PORT DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

CANTON, CHINA.

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Canton, August 12th 1937.

Hon. A. P. Blunt,

British Consul-General,

Shameen, Canton.

Sir,

Our Special Engineering Adviser, Mr. E. P. Goodrich,

of New York City, having reached the opinion that it is phy-

sically and economically feasible to create and maintain a

navigable channel from Whampoa to Hong Kong, including the

section generally known as the Lintin Bar, we are addressing

you to request that you transmit to the proper authorities our

proposal for a reciprocal understanding as to the use of the

channel which it is now contemplated that the Whampoa Port

Development Administration may provide across the Lintin Bar,

and of the connecting channels and harbour waters under the jur-

isdiction of Hong Kong.

According to British Admiralty Chart, No. 1180

entitled "Approaches to Hong Kong Harbour", two bars now exist

in Hong Kong Harbor, viz., between Kellett Bank and Green Island

and between Chu Lu Kok and Sha Chau, which now limit to 18

feet at L.L.W.O.S. T. the draft of vessels which might desire

to pass between Hong Kong and Whampoa harbors.

It is now proposed that the authorities in charge

of Hong Kong harbor dredging, agree to deepen the water on these

bars at their sole expense, if the Whampoa Administration

deepens the channel over the Lintin Bar which leads most

directly to Hong Kong, the depths both in Hong Kong and at

Lintin to be the same, or such as is considered necessary for

the commerce which the Whampoa Administration desires to secure.

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