WHAMPOA
PORT
DEVELOFMANT
CONFIDENTIAL
BY JAPS HAND
B.A. Shanghai, No.211
(* 2 copies)
Copies to1-
Foreign Office, No.134
(4 2 copies)
Governor, Hongkong, No.167.
British Consulate-General,
CANTON.
21st November 1938.
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Enclosure 30.1
His Excellency
air,
In view of recent events and the possibility
that the Japanese may be contemplating the development
of Canton as a South China emporium for the male and
distribution of their own goods, I consider that it may
be so well to examine the question of the possible
development of the Port of Whampoa and the effect which
this port, when and if, constructed, may be expected to
have in Japanese hands on the trade of Kongkong.
2.
I have the honour to beg reference in the first
instance to Mr. R.H. scott's Confidential despatch No.
11 of March 18th, 1956, regarding en interview with
Dr. Io wen-kan, the then Chairman of the Whampoa Port
Development Association, relating to the Shampos Fort
Development schemes and recording in paragraphs 7 and 8
his intereating conclusions from that interview (a copy
of which is enclosed for convenience of reference).
At the time of writing this despatch, Mr. Scott was
Acting Trade Commissioner at Hongkong, and his despatch
may be termed the basic report up-to-date regarding the
Whampoa Fort Development scheme as it then stood. Sir
Andrew Galdecott in his secret despatch (unnumbered) of
February 19th, 1937, addressed to the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, quotes Mr. Scott's conclusions in
sir ¿rohibald Clark Kerr, K.b. M. 0.
šta., etc., etc.,
His Majesty's imbassador,
British mbassy,
SHANGHAI
extenso
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