CO129-564-11 Road communications with Canton. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Bridge over Shum Chun River- China. Dated... 20-8-1937 - 18-1-1938 — Page 21

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Ne. SECRET.

AIR MAIL.

Sir,

ولی

12€

24

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

18th January, 1938.

Anawd. 28

SEU. 29

I have the honour to confirm my secret

24 telegram No.16 dated 15th January, 1938, which reads

as follows:-

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"Your telegram No.242. Bridge completed

and through traffic possible though road

works not yet complete. Despatch follows

by Air Mail."

and to inform you that the temporary bridge over the Shum Chun river was completed on 31st December, 1937, and that communication by road with China is now

possible though considerable work still remains to be

done before the road works in British Territory

can be regarded as complete.

2.

In this connection I would request your authority in accordance with Colonial Regulation No.265 for the additional expenditure of $18,716.50

in excess of the estimate of $85,000 which was given 9.in my secret telegram No.267 dated 4th November, 1937.

The original estimate did not allow for the cost of bridge building as it was thought that the temporary bridge in process of construction by the Chinese

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.

&C.