CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 139

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particular claim in question amounts only to some 211,400:- the

question at issue involves mich more important sums since, as you

will be aware from the previous correspondence, the Government of

the Colony bare recorded old olaims under the same head for the

years 1923/1988 amounting to nearly a million dollars. I do not

understand that it is their intention to abandon these although

there is no record here of their having yet been formally presented

to the Chinese Government (see Sir Cecil Clementi'a telegram to

7on 62834/29

the Secretary of State for the Colonies number 5 of xay 28th. last).

3. The claim in question are put forward under Article VII olsuse

(f) of the working Agreement which states that:-

"when in circumstances of political emergency it is

necessary either for the Hongkong Government or for

the Chinese Government to suspend the ruming of

through trains, due notice (not less than six hours

clear) shall be given by the one Government to the

other and compensation shall be paid by the Govern-

ment requesting such suspension..

clause is

peculiar one and I am in some doubt se

eireume tanees it oRD have been intended

cover (although an

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