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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. F 439/141/10.
and address--
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State."
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
RECEIVED
-6FEB 1330 COL. OFFICE
(3) 148
FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
5th February, 1930.
sir,
is
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to
transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch from
Majesty's Minister at Peking, enclosing copy of a
despatch, with enclosures, addressed to him by the
Governor of Hongkong on the subject of the suspension
of through traffic on the Canton-Kowloon Railway.
2. Mr. Henderson concurs generally in Sir M.
Lampson's views and considers that if any claim on the
part of the British section of the Canton-Kowloon
Railway for compensation in respect of the suspension
of traffic lies at all, it can only lie against the
Chinese Government and, therefore, that the British
section would in no circumstances be justified in
withholding the amounts due in respect of current
operations to the Chinese section of the railway.
3. Article 7(f) of the canton-Kowloon Railway
Joint Working Agreement appears only to contemplate
some political emergency in which the respective
governments are in control of the situation and suspend
the running of trains of their own volition, and does
not appear to relate to emergencies such as war and
rebellion in which the working of the railway is
stopped without the wish and consent of the government
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
concerned....