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Letter from the Kinistry of Communications to the Jardine Engineering Corporation.
Dear "ir,
November 4, 1947.
Among our stook® in Hongkong commandeered by the Hongkong Jovernment and for compensation of which wG DAVO previously requested you to negotiate with the Hongkong bevernsent on our behalf, there are two locomotive®, G.E.R. 31, 32, skoda (4-6-2) which are the property of the Canton Henk.ow Railway.
According to a letter from the Kinistry of Foreign Affairs dated February 11 of this year, mo.2561
randum from the british mbassy, dated January 21, No.36. has been received to the effect that the two "koda loco- motives are at prement in Bombay and the Hongkong Governant ba® stated_that” the two locomotives will be transported back from India at the earliest possible moment. Arrange- mant for that purpose ha- boen zaie, but on account of the lack of whips with crank equipment, the locomotive will
nipe Hongkong in par be "hipped to liongkong in parts for reassembling.
lio: ever, these two locomotives have not yet been «hipped now, as the Canton-Fankow milway is urgently in need of these locomotives, ve "Lall be grateful if you would kindly urge the Hongkong Government to ship theme locomotives back to Hongkong a• •oon a« po««ible.
Please also let us know if any reply ha" ben received from London regarding the comandeered "tock",
Your- faithfully,
гов
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