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(F.2777/6/10.)
To CHINA.
Code telegram to Sir M. Lampson (Peking).
Foreign Office. 14th June, 1928.
No. 146.
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7.00 p.m.
Your despatch No. 401.
(Boxer Indemnity.)
If a more or less stabilised Central Government
emerges out of the present tangle I hope to proceed
with an amending bill. But this position has not
yet arisen; and choice is limited to continued in-
activity or undertaking minor projects within scope.
of Willingdon recommendations and Advisory Committee's
approval see Indemnity Blue Book, pp. 17 to 23
under provisions of 1925 act. For this a small sub-
committee in China would be necessary to enable
Statutory Committee to advise me. Funds could then
be released to carry out decisions reached by
Statutory Committee and sub-committee in consultation.
These sums would be accounted for by sub-committee.
You should therefore submit this proposal to the
three Chinese members as coming from Lord Buxton
and the British members indicating their own
preference for taking immediate action on these
lines rather than waiting for the inevitable delays
of further legislation, but impressing on them that
legislation and appointment of Board of Trustees is
not to be prejudiced by this preliminary scheme but
more ...