CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 58

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

your despatch No.320 of the 21st November in which you

instructed me to furnish you with an expression of my

views as to whather the expensos incurred in guarding

the Poking-Shanhaikuan rallway and the outlay untailed

by other military measuras. taken for the protection of

foreigners since the outbreak of the revolution should

not be included in the claim which will eventually be

presented to the Chinese Government. You added that,

In the event of my concurring in the adoption of this

course, you proposed to invite the various Departmenta

of His Majesty's Government to prepare a statement of

the expenses rospectively incurred by than in the above

connection.

It soums to me reasonable that the Chinage Govern-

ment should be called upon to pay at least a portion of

the expenses that have been incurred in guarding the

railway, but there may be some difference of opinion as

na Right Honourable

Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P.,

to

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