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 28

Tel. No.-Whitehall 9400.

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to :-

The Under-Secretary of State.

The War Office.

London,S.W.1,

and the following number quoted.

083/6039 (M.0.2.)

RECEIVE

10 NCV1

NATIONAL

FOR DI

C. O. REC

CHEME

MEN

IMMEDIATE CONFIDENTIAL.

THE WAR OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W.1.

10 November, 1937.

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Sir,

I am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge

receipt of Colonial Office letter No. 53851/37, dated

6th November, 1937, and, in reply, to state, for the

information of Mr Secretary Ormsby Gore, that so far

as defence considerations are concerned they have no

objection to the proposed construction of a separate

road bridge to complete the road connection between

Hong Kong and Canton.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

At Widelows

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.,

1.