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THE BRITISH ELECTRICAL AND ALLIED MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. 547
C
King's House,
Kingsway,
56396
London, W.C.2.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
RECR
The Right Hon.
Rres | OCT 19
September 26th, 1919.
The Secretary for the Colonies;
Whitehall, S.W.1.
Sir,
America in China
I am directed by this Council to invite your kind
attention in the following confidential matter.
It was reported to them at their last meeting that the
United States Government, acting apparently hand in hand with
the larger American engineering interests, have entered into an
arrangement with the Government of China for the remission from
the year 1908 of the payment, or part payment, by China to the
United States of the Boxer indemnity on certain conditions, in-
cluding this one: That the Government of China should, in re-
turn, ensure the sending of Chinese students, particularly en-
gineering students, to American Universities to obtain their higher education particularly engineering.
Of the true results of that particular arrangement I
have no evidence; but there is ltitle question that America has, possibly by such activities, obtained a preponderating influence in Chinese education, with the consequent benefit to American methods in manufacture and trade. In fact, my Council is in- formed that of the 14 collegiate institutions in China 12 are
"American".
Under the circumstances, my Council feel that they should ask you to be kind enough to give them, in strict con- fidence, such leading particulars of the Boxer-indemnity arrange ment between this country and China as will assist them to
consider