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

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Railway.

It strikee off towards the South Gast but a 200

turns to the south at and reaches Champos in a distance

of about 4 ilometres.

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It is clear that the Japanese have built with an

eye chiefly to speed of constraction chosing the shorteat

possible route, for although embankments re e completed on

the previously planned line, the bridge at Kilometres 9+380.900

has not been built, nor is there any steel buil ing material

in Canton. In talk with Major Street, oritish Engineer in

hier of he hinese lection of the Fowloon-Centon Railway,

I raised the point that the new link woul, in the case of an

eventual re-opening of the owlo n-nton silway entail a

auble 8e of no less than 11 kilometres of the main line

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which the originally planned link was specifically designed

to evold, but he assure me tha norm1 traffic is not s0

heavy that a time table to arrange to handle both streams

of traffic could not easily be arranged,

I have the honour to be,

Your excellency'a moet obedient, humble servant,

(agd.) A.I. BLUNT

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