During the journey the party did not pass a single other vehicle and did not see any Japanese planes. The villages through which they passed reported that there had been no raids that day, though usually the planes came almost every day. There were many buildings destroyed all along the railway.
The party, using both cars, will return to Canton by road on Jan, 9, but Mr. Blunt, who came to Hongkong in a private capacity and not on business, is returning on H.M.S. Tarantula.
"It has for a long time been m to travel to Hongkong by car, said Mr. Ferrier "I made one attempt last October but could not get through. This, I believe, is the first Occasion on which a private car made the trip to Hongkong, and we did it merely to see if it could be done and to find out what conditions were like."
Interviewed an official of the Hong. kong Traffic Department stated tha so far as Hongkong was concerned, permits would be issued to owners of private vehicles who desired tu use the road from Sheung Shui to the new bridge, and the Hongkong authorities had no objection to traffic crossing the bridge into Kwangtung. It is hardly likely, however, that the Chinese authorities will permit traffic to proceed across the bridge.
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