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continual stoppages of traffic. The claims

of the British Section under Article 7 of

the Agreement were estimated as follows:-

$164,309.84

1923

1924

247,989.78

1925

231,216.73

1926

223,356.11

1927

68,430.29

1928

1929

5,905.46 23,966.40

$ 969,019.44

* The core is in

62834/29

3 in Maqe

+ See cont hin

30072760

In 1923 the British Section com-

municated to the Chinese Section the account

of its claim under this head. The Chinese

Section replied that, as clause (f) of

Article 7 of the Working Agreement provided for compensation for suspension of through trains to be paid by the Government requesting

the suspension, and as the suspension of the

through trains in the present instance was

due to the action of the Provincial Govern-

ment, the Section, which could not possibly

be considered as representing the Provincial

Government, would not admit the liability.

There the matter appears to have

rested. The financial position of the

Chinese Section was so consistently desperate

that no formal claim in respect of suspension

of traffic was presented up till September,

1929, when in making a payment due to the

Chinese Section the British Section withheld

$11,438.16, representing the claim in respect

of

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