Under Secretary of State
Colonial Office
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to the state of local opinion in Hongkong, and the views of Mr Amery as expressed in your letter, the Committee, after consulting the Basel Missionary Society, are prep ured to assent in the meantime to the proposed arrangement; 1.e. that the Rev. August Nagel should be allowed to return to Hongkong in order to carry out certain duties, and that the properties of the Basel Mias ion should be transferred
The details of this arrage- to a ne body of trustees.
ment can, in the view of the Comittee, best be worked out in personal consultation between the Hongkong Government, the trustees and Mr Nagel, representing the Basel. Society,
when he arrives in Fongkong.
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The Committee assume th .t it is intended:
(a) that Mr Nagel will not be debarred from carrying out such spiritual duties on behalf of the local Christian community as he may be called on to undertake; und
(b) that the proceeds of the sale of any pro- perties belonging to the Basel Mission, if such sales are carried out by the new body of trustees, will, as in the case of the other missions, be handed over to the Basel Missionary Society, for use in its work in China and to meet existing claims and the needs of such work in Hongkong
the as, in accordance with the agreement arrived at, Society is permitted to carry on; and that in the meantime rents derived from any of the properties not yet sold will be at the disposal of the Basel Society for the same
purposes.
The Committee suggest that in the event of a new board of trustees being constituted for the purpose of dealing/