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Mr. Surent
Mr.
Mr. E. J. Harding.
Sir C. Strachey.
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Sir J. Shuckburgh.
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Sir G. Grindle.
Sir C. Davis.
Sir S. Wilson.
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Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Earl of Clarendon,
Mr. Amery.
DRAFT.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS
No. 496
GOVERNOR.
Cond. 276
2.
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Downing Street,
September 1927.
27 OCT 1927
With reference to your despatch
No.408 of the 16th of July in which you ask
to be furnished with information in regard to
the disposal of the British share of the Boxer
Indemnity, I have etc. to transmit to you a
copy of the Report of the China. Indemnity
Advisory Committee appointed under the China
Indemnity Application) Act 1925 from which it
will be seen that it is intended to establish
a Board of Trustees in China to administer the
Indemnity funds.
2.
Before a Board of Trustees can be
established it will be necessary to obtain the
necessary authority by means of an Act of
Ene-
Parliament, owing to existing conditions in
,
China it has not yet been found possible to
introduce a Bill for the purpose. In the
meantime the funds are being allowed to
accumulate and no action is being taken for
their