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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Excellency's despatch of the 27th. of December enclosing
copy of a comunication which you had addressed to His Majesty's
Consul-General at Canton on the subject of a claim to be made by
the Hongkong Government against the Chinese Authorities for the
suspension of traffic on the Canton-Kowloon Railway from the 7th.
of November to the 13th. of December.
I have deferred answering Your Excellency's
despatch until I had an opportunity of consulting Ir. Alston,
Councillor of this Legation, whose opinion on the question had
been asked by His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.
After due consideration, I have come to the
conclusion that the claim should be presented to the Chinese
Government and not to the authorities at Canton. My reasons for
this are two-fold. In the first place, the presentation of a claim
to the revolutionary authorities at Canton would involve a de-
-gree of recognition which His Majesty's Government are not pre-
-pared to accord, and in the second place, the responsibility of
the Imperial Government is determined by the fact that the
request for tue suspension originally made to Your Excellency by
the Viceroy at Canton was subsequently confirmed by the telegram
sent by the Board of Communications.
I have accordingly presented a claim for the
amount named by Your Excellency to the Wai Wu Pu in a Memorandum,
copy of which I have the honour to enclose, but I think that it is
not improbable that the Chinese Goverment will disclaim liability
for those portions of the claim which relate to the period after
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