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abandoned.
3. I should be glad if
you would take into consideratiun
whether an effort should not be
made to negotiate a new agreement
which will enable any future claims
by the British section to be recovered
by withholaing sums due from that
section; the waiving of the existing
claims in respect of those suspensions
hught
That event being used as an inducement to obtain
the consent of the Chinese Goverment.
4. I shall be glad to know whether
you are satisfied that the claims for
demurrage in 1923/25 arose from detention
in the ordinary course of working the
line and are not, as the Chinese
Section alleges, aue to the suspensions
of through running, since the latter
They
case would rank with the claims whi ch
it has been decided not to press.
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