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to the basis upon which the calculation of the amount
should be made. Some Powers, who brought troopa to
North China specially for this purpose, would possibly
be inclined to look to China to reimburse them for the
total outlay the step had entailed, while others, like
ourselves, would probably hold that the presence of
their forces in North China was a necessity of the
unsuttled political situation and would regard the
intenance of communication with the sea as more or
1688 a part of the wider issues involved. The fairest
course, in my opinion, would be to claim from China only
such a sum as represented the extra expense incurred in
guarding the line. Traffic charges, construction of
barracks and numerous other incidental items would fall
within this category of expenditure which, in our case,
amounted to about £2,000 up till October last. It is
quita certain that the payment of any claim whatever
will be strenuously resisted by the Chinesa Government
on the plea that they did not require the assistance of
foreign troops and that the Protocol, while giving
the Powers the right to protect the railway and telo-
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