CO129-578-5 Development of Whampoa Port 13-12-1938 - 11-5-1939 — Page 12

comes its rih sitee of

Completion or Japantase of railway line

xtoneral.

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17th Horah, 1

dovernor Hong No.51

Trede Commissioner, Hengkong No. 16

sir,

#ith reference to my despatch 3.817 of ård

Dreambar, 1958 on the subject or the

port of hapoa

elopment of tho

Ihrve the honour to report that Thava

le rned from a most trustworthy source that the Japanese

nara alr

odo railway 11ne connecting the Conton-

**l on line with the site of the proposed shampoa kort

1

velopment

xiato no

root rollnny

ton botson denko.

intention or the chinen was to link the port

with the Yuch Han Rullway ny none of an axtonion of tho

existing loop line which Joino the Conton-forloon track 8

kilometres fros

Conton torninue. The proposed link

with hampoo wan to novo Left the loop line just ovす!

ro the function with the

kilometre

have

loon line and to

tinued in an angerly atreetlon for two kilometr砂糖

before turning to the south and being enrried by a bridge

rer the owloon line ot kilometre 9+360,900, thence continu-

ing in a general easterly and south-easterly direction along

nampoa motor road forn

before reaching thampoe itself.

rther nine or ten kilometres

enoabkaent for this

hinose but no rolle

conineering 11no had coen completed by the

0.

The link with "hampos which the Japanese høve just

cplated leaves the

20f Kilometrea

⠀ als zxcellency

conton terminus of the Kouloon-cont

ritish mORSEY,