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CHINA

F 3071 MART 793

29 MAR 1939

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FROM Consul-General

Blunt, Canton.

No.47.

Whampoa port development scheme.

Refers to his despatch No. 130 of 3rd December, 3071/3071/10. 1938 (F 13557/13343/10/38). Encloses copy of despatch

No. 62 of 17th March to Shanghai, reporting that Japanese have completed a railway line connecting Canton-Kowloon railway with the site of the proposed Whampoa Port Development Scheme. It is clear that Japanese have built with an eye chiefly to speed of construction choosing shortest possible route. British Engineer in Chief of Chinese section of Kowloon-Canton

Dated 17th Mar.1939.

Receiveistry 29th Mar.1939 railway gave assurance that in the case of eventual

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reopening of Kowloon-Canton railway a time table to arrange to handle double traffic could easily be arranged. Copied Hong Kong 51, Trade Commissioner 16.

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