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to the Chinese authorities

that they have been definitely

abandoned.

3. I should be glad if you

would consider whether an effort should

not be made to negotiate a new agreement

which will enable any future clains

by the British section to be recovered

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by withholding suns due from that

section; the waiving of the existing

claims in respect of those suspensions

might in that event be 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 alleged, due to the suspensions

of

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