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 5

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Comment on 0.1.

I do not think that either the

official or the unofficial sections of the

Hong Kong community have any doubt that its

prosperity and value as a British Colony

ultimately depend on securing the goodwill of

the Chinese, and that its interests have very

much in common, if they are not perhaps

/

completely identical, with wider general British

interests in China.

There is, therefore, I

think,