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supplied but not yet paid for. For this reason Foreign
Office telegram lo. 138 of April 5th was addressed to Sir
Miles Lampson who, according to the instructions therein
contained, has submitted the suggestions of His Majesty's
Government to the Chinese authorities and has proposed that
they should give assurances on the lines of the draft note
in Peking telegram No. 310 of April llth. This was approved
in Foreign Office telegram o. 149 of April 16th with the
exception that it was therein laid down that there should be
no mention of the Indemnity in any assurance that the Chinese
may give regarding the payment of outstanding debts for
material. Sir C. ulementi's new proposal, however, is not
concerned with a debt for railway material but with a claim
arising out of the suspension of through traffic on the Canton-
Kowloon Railway and for demurrage of wagons. This introduces
an entirely new class of claim differing from those which have
been indirectly considered in connexion with the Indemnity
rund, and Mr. Henderson is unable to admit this new departure
from the general lines which His Majesty's Government have
been pursuing. He would suggest that this claim should be
treated as a subject for independent negotiation with the
Chinese Government, if the Governor of Hongkong considers that
any satisfactory settlement is likely to be reached.
4. As regards the sums due to the Hongkong University
by Chinese authorities, Mr. Secretary Webb will have observed
from Sir Miles Lampson's telegram No. 53 of June 3rd that it
has been agreed in principle between sir M. Lampson and Dr.
C.T. Wang that an additional sum of fifteen thousand pounds
should/