CO129-566-3 Canton-Kowloon Railway 4-4-1938 - 20-1-1939 — Page 63

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. F 6157/279/10.

and address,

but to-

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office,

London, S. W. 1.

Sir,

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

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16th June, 1938.

With reference to Colonial Office letter

No. 53510/38 of the 1st June, 1938 regarding a request

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from the Managing Director of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway for a loan from the British section of the

Railway, I am directed by Viscount Halifax to state that

he agrees with the lines of the reply to the Governor of

Hong Kong laid down in the letter from the Treasury 10 to the Colonial Office No. F 15539 of the 8th June.

2. A copy of this letter is being sent to the

Treasury.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

R.5. Hows