CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 22

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abandoned.

3. I should be glad if

you would take into consideratiun

whether an effort should not be

made to negotiate a new agreement

which will enable any future claims

by the British section to be recovered

by withholaing sums due from that

section; the waiving of the existing

claims in respect of those suspensions

hught

That event being used as an inducement to obtain

the consent of the Chinese Goverment.

4. I shall be glad to know whether

you are satisfied that the claims for

demurrage in 1923/25 arose from detention

in the ordinary course of working the

line and are not, as the Chinese

Section alleges, aue to the suspensions

of through running, since the latter

They

case would rank with the claims whi ch

it has been decided not to press.

I