32
COPY:
Managing Director's Office,
No.128/1/13.
The Manager,
Kowloon-Canton Railway,
British Section,
KOWLOON.
Canton. 25th January 1924.
Sir,
your letter
ROUGH TRAIN SERVICE.
British Section claims for the suspension of Through Services, Hire and Demurrage of British Section Stock, etc.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
o. 738 dated 13th December 1923, herein.
With regard to the claims, which you said, will be made by your Government when the situation becomes normal again, I would beg to submit that as clause (f) of Art.7. of the Working Agreement provides for compensation for suspension of through trains to be paid by the Government requesting the suspension, and that as the suspension of the through trains in the present instance was and is due to the action of the Government in the Province, my Section, which cannot possibly be considered as representing the Government in the Province, cannot therefore admit liability or be held
responsible for the same.
The above applies also to your Section's claim for demurrage of rolling stock, which is lodgeable by your Government direct with the Government in the Province along with its claims for suspension of through trains, because the demurrage was due to such suspension.
In thanking you for your courtesy in forwarding the accounts enclosed with your letter now under acknowledgment, I think I can safely take it for granted that it is in advance
of