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CABINET 58 (28)
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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held on Wednesday, 19th December, 1928, at 4.0. p.m.
CHINA
The Boxer Indemnity
(Previous Reference: Çabinet 20 (28) Con- clusion 9.)
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3. The Cabinet had before them the following
Memoranda in regard to the China Boxer Indemnity:-
A Note by the Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Cushendun) (Paper C.P.343 (28)) covering a Memorandum by the Far Eastern
Department of the Foreign Office containing a
suggestion that all future instalments of the
Boxer Indemnity should be released unconditionally
to the Chinese Government; together with tele-
graphic correspondence with His Majesty's Minister
at Peking, and a Minute of a conversation with Lord
Buxton:
A Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Paper C.P.359 (28)) urging that the sum
necessary for the further development of the Hong:
Kong University should be provided out of the
accumulated instalments of the Boxer Indemnity now
in our hands.
A Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
(Paper