Copy.
PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM.
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From the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies.
Dated 28th May, 1929.
(Received Colonial Office 3.36 p.m.28th May, 1929).
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Secret.
Addressed to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies No. 5 of 28th May repeated to H.M.Minister
at Nanking unnumbered of 28th May.
Your telegram of 27th May. Claim on
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account of Kowloom Canton Railway is a claim made
under two heads against Chinese section by British
section.
(1) Suspension of through traffic due to
Civil War commencing with birth of National Government
at Canton in 1923 and continuing intermittently up
to the present time and also to the banditry resulting
therefrom and to the boycott. Claim is based on
Article 7 (f) of working agreement of September 8th
1911 which reads "When the circumstances of Political
emergency it is necessary either for the Hong Kong
Government or for the Chinese Government to suspend
the running of through trains, due notice (not less
than six clear (group omitted ? hours) shall be
given by one of the Governments to the other and
compensation shall be paid by the Government requesting
such suspension at a daily rate of half the average
gross receipts of the other Section on through traffic
as ascertained from accounts for the corresponding
months