CO129-516-4 Canton-Kowloon Railway- use of money from the 'Boxer Indemnity' 21-2-1929 - 6-8-1929 — Page 24

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No 253.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

17th May, 1929.

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Enclo. No. 1.

Enclo. No. 2.

Copy F.O. (1)

Sir,

I have the honour to forward for your

information the accompanying copy of a report by the

Manager of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton

Railway on the claims of this section against the

Chinese Section in respect of suspension of traffic

and demurrage of rolling stock.

2.

I have, I regret to say, no immediate hope

of securing any reparation in respect of this claim.

In fact the financial position of the Chinese Section

has been so consistently desperate that no formal claim in respect of suspension of traffic has been

presented since 1923. The enclosed copies of the

correspondence which took place on that occasion

clearly indicate the answer which will be made to

any attempt at recovery. Moreover, at the moment

of writing the through-service is again interrupted

by the struggle between Kwangsi and Nanking for

control of Canton and a 100 feet steel span from one

of the major bridges at Shek-t'an has been blown up

by

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.