PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM
from the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Dated 28th May.
(Received, Colonial Office, 3.36 p.m., 28th May, 1929).
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Secret. Addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies
No.5 of 28th May repeated to H. M. Minister at Nanking unnumbered
of 28th May.
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Your telegram of 27th May. Claim on account of Kowloon
Canton Railway is a chaim made under two heads against Chinese
section by British section.
(1) Suspension of through traffic due to Civil War
commencing with birth of National Government at Canton in 1923
end continuing intermittently up to the present time and also to
the banditry resulting therefrom and to the boycott. Claim is
based on Article 7(f) of working agreement of September 8th 1911
which reads "When in the circumstances of Political emergency
it is necessary either for the Hong Kong Government or for the Chinese Government to suspend the running of through trains, due
notice (not less than six clear (group omitted? hours) shall be
given by one of the Governments to the other and compensation shall be paid by the Government requesting such suspension at a
daily rate of half the average gross receipts of the other Section
on through traffic as ascertained from accounts for the corres-
ponding months of the previous year, or failing that for the last
preceding month" Amounts claimed are as follows:- 1923 $164,310
1924 8247,990 1925 8231,217 1926 $223,356
1928 £5,905.
1927 $68,430
Amount to be claimed in respect of the recent suspension
during the struggle for Canton between Nanking and Kuangsi has not
been
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