CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 136

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In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. F 439/141/10.

and address--

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State."

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

RECEIVED

-6FEB 1330 COL. OFFICE

(3) 148

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

5th February, 1930.

sir,

is

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to

transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch from

Majesty's Minister at Peking, enclosing copy of a

despatch, with enclosures, addressed to him by the

Governor of Hongkong on the subject of the suspension

of through traffic on the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

2. Mr. Henderson concurs generally in Sir M.

Lampson's views and considers that if any claim on the

part of the British section of the Canton-Kowloon

Railway for compensation in respect of the suspension

of traffic lies at all, it can only lie against the

Chinese Government and, therefore, that the British

section would in no circumstances be justified in

withholding the amounts due in respect of current

operations to the Chinese section of the railway.

3. Article 7(f) of the canton-Kowloon Railway

Joint Working Agreement appears only to contemplate

some political emergency in which the respective

governments are in control of the situation and suspend

the running of trains of their own volition, and does

not appear to relate to emergencies such as war and

rebellion in which the working of the railway is

stopped without the wish and consent of the government

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

concerned....