The Archive · 1936

London to Canton by Rail

Prof, L. Forster Makes Trip in Twenty Days Hongkong, Sept. 14.

The frst traveller to reach Canton by rail from London arrived in the Colony to-day in the person of Professor Lancelot. Forster, Professor of Education at the University of Hongkong,"whose journey occupied 20 days.

'The journey was rendered possible by tie completion of the Canton Hankow, Railway, which was only recently' put Into' operation, Proves sor Forster is the author of several books, notably "The New Culture In China."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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