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particular claim in question amounts only to some 211,400:- the
question at issue involves mich more important sums since, as you
will be aware from the previous correspondence, the Government of
the Colony bare recorded old olaims under the same head for the
years 1923/1988 amounting to nearly a million dollars. I do not
understand that it is their intention to abandon these although
there is no record here of their having yet been formally presented
to the Chinese Government (see Sir Cecil Clementi'a telegram to
7on 62834/29
the Secretary of State for the Colonies number 5 of xay 28th. last).
3. The claim in question are put forward under Article VII olsuse
(f) of the working Agreement which states that:-
"when in circumstances of political emergency it is
necessary either for the Hongkong Government or for
the Chinese Government to suspend the ruming of
through trains, due notice (not less than six hours
clear) shall be given by the one Government to the
other and compensation shall be paid by the Govern-
ment requesting such suspension..
clause is
peculiar one and I am in some doubt se
eireume tanees it oRD have been intended
cover (although an
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