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Article 22 of the Agreement that "Each Section shall have a locomotive waiting in radiness at Shan Chun station for taking the through trains in accordance with the last preceding article. In order to ensure punctuality each Section through whose fault delay occurs shall forfeit to the other the sum of one dollar for each minute after the first fifteen minutes that any through train arrives late at Sham Chun station, unless
from causes such delay arises beyond the reasonable control of the Section
concerned..
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The above stipulation was made to ensure punctuality and in consequence of delays in the running of trains. But, traffic having been suspended, how can a plea of delay in the
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running af of train be sustained? A plea of delay in the running of trains being untenable, how can there be a compensa-
This, we hold, is contrary
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tion of Twenty dollars per diem?
to the Agreement.