to the Chinese authorities
that they have been definitely
abandoned.
3. I should be glad if you
would consider whether an effort should
not be made to negotiate a new agreement
which will enable any future clains
by the British section to be recovered
4
by withholding suns due from that
section; the waiving of the existing
claims in respect of those suspensions
might in that event be 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 alleged, due to the suspensions
of
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