CO129-571-9 Sino-Japanese War- Canton-Kowloon railway 25-3-1938 - 28-2-1939 — Page 44

53838/24/38.

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18 January, 1939.

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24.12.38.

Dear Howe,

With reference to your letter to Gent of

the 28th October, 1938 F 11265/10648/10, I enclose

a copy of a letter which I have received from

Northcote, the Governor of Hong Kong, about the

question of re-establishing a through train service

to Canton on the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

Subject to anything that the Foreign Office

may have to say we propose to tell Northcote in

reply that we are in general agreement with his

views, and approve of his doing what he thinks

expedient to facilitate the re-opening of the

railway, without formally pressing the matter on the

Japanese.

R.G. HOWE, ESQ., C.M.G.

Yours sincerely

H.R. Cowell