CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912 — Page 544

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eighty-five dollars, and that the mount duo as compensation for

the suspension of traffic for 36 days is equal to Six Thousand sevon hundred and fifty (siq n.b. this is an error for X6752.50) .50 dollars and fifty cents.

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537

The Nin dry of Comunications hold to the provision of Article 7 of the Canton-Kowloon Joint Working Agreement that "When in circumstances of political emergency it is necessary either for the Hongkong Governmont or for the Chinese Covertment to ourpond the runing of through trains, duc notice shall be given by the one Government to the other and compensa-

such tion shall be paid by the Government requesting tire suspension

at a daily rate of half the average gross receipts of the other Section on through traffic as ascertained from the recounts for

month of the previou the corresponding yéer, or failing

the last preceding

month."

that for

The demands of the Governor of Hongkong for losses of traffic receipts must of course be based on the limitations of the Agreanent: now the Agreement lays domm clearly that in regard to lesnes of traffic receipts compensation can only be paid The due notice has been given by the one Govenmont to the other. The notice given in advance by this Ministry requcated 2 suspension of traffic for five days only; natural- ly, according to the Agreement, compensation must be paid for

five days.

(Admission of the liability for compensation for these five days has already been given above)

The original limmorandum again quotes the communication from the Governor of Hongkong to the effect that there was a sun of Twenty Dollars per dien as compensation for late trains under Article 22 of the Agreement, consequently the amount due as compensation for 361 days is Soven Hundred and thirty dol-

lars.

The Ministry of Commmications hold to the provisions of

Article