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TREASURY CHAN6 JUL 13
10th January, 1913.
Sir: -
I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Treasury Sir W. Langley's letter of the 2nd
ultimo (50647/12), relative to a scheme for the establish-
ment and endowment of a University in the centre of
China under British auspices to be financed out of
moneys to be received from China in payment of the
Boxer Indemnity, and I am to request you to lay before
Secretary Sir Edward Grey the following reply.
This proposal raises two questions, first the
desirability of an expenditure of £400,000 on a Univer-
sity such as is suggested, and second the general
question of the proper utilisation of the moneys
received by the Exchequer on account of the Boxer
Indemnity. It appears to My Lords that these two
questions have no necessary connection and that the
introduction of the latter only tends to confuse the
issue raised by the former.
The method in which the Boxer Indemnity receipts
should be used was considered in 1905 and 1906 and, as
The Under Secretary of State,
Sir
Foreign Office.