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of suspension of traffic during the year 1929.
The Chinese Section immediately protested, again
Article I pointing out that under the terms of the Agreement such compensation was payable by the Government concerned and adding that "any settlement of such claims must be settled by the Ministry and the
Board of Foreign Affairs who will inform His
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Majesty's Minister as to the course of action
to be taken in respect thereof". The British
Section, however, refused to pay up the amount
withheld.
Sir C.Clementi, in a despatch dated the 6th November, 1929, forwarded the correspondence
ut the 1-295 on claim between the two Sections/to His Majesty's Minister
at Peking asking that efforts might be made to
induce the Central Government to shoulder the
liabilities and adding that he did not proposed to
authorize the British Section to pay the amount
withheld by them from the Chinese Section.
Sir M.Lampson felt it desirable to refer
the matter home He was in doubt as to the
circumstances which clause (f) of Article 7 of the
Agreement was meant to cover (although he suggested
that an illustration was afforded by the fact that
the Chinese Government previously accepted a
claims for compensation under this article in a
case where the Chinese Viceroy had, in 1911,
requested the suspension of through traffic for
five days in order to facilitate troop movements).
He much doubted whether the clause "circumstances
of political emergency" was intended to cover
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