CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 59

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to the basis upon which the calculation of the amount

should be made. Some Powers, who brought troopa to

North China specially for this purpose, would possibly

be inclined to look to China to reimburse them for the

total outlay the step had entailed, while others, like

ourselves, would probably hold that the presence of

their forces in North China was a necessity of the

unsuttled political situation and would regard the

intenance of communication with the sea as more or

1688 a part of the wider issues involved. The fairest

course, in my opinion, would be to claim from China only

such a sum as represented the extra expense incurred in

guarding the line. Traffic charges, construction of

barracks and numerous other incidental items would fall

within this category of expenditure which, in our case,

amounted to about £2,000 up till October last. It is

quita certain that the payment of any claim whatever

will be strenuously resisted by the Chinesa Government

on the plea that they did not require the assistance of

foreign troops and that the Protocol, while giving

the Powers the right to protect the railway and telo-

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