CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930 — Page 49

CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY CLAIMS.

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The British Section of the Railway

have claims against the Chinese Section under

two heads (a) on account of suspension of

Through Traffic, and (b) on account of Demurrage

of Rolling Stock.

(a) Suspension of Through Traffic.

Claims on this account are based on

Clause (f) of Article 7 of the Working Agreement

of the Railway (made between the Directorate

General of the Chinese Imperial Railways of the

Board of Ports and Communications and the Governor

of Hong Kong and signed, apparently, on the

8th September, 1911, but never formally ratified

by the Chinese). The clause reads as follows:-

"When in circumstances of political emergency it is necessary either for the

Hong Kong Government or for the Chinese

Government to suspend the running 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

Government requesting such suspension at a

daily rate of half the average gross receipts

of the other section on through traffic as

ascertained from the accounts for the corres-

ponding month of the preceding year, or failing

that for the last preceding month".

During 1923 and succeeding years

conditions of civil war in the Chinese province and disturbances arising there from occasioned

continual