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that the proposal made by the China Indemnity Advisory
Committee, involves the appointment in China of a Board of
Trustees, to whom all applications for grants should be made,
and you imply that all action directed towards the
constitution of such a Board being at the moment in suspense,
my application for a grant for the University cannot be
considered.
8.
If you will turn to your secret despatch of
the 12th January, 1927, you will find that, though you did
not feel justified in requesting that the application of
the report of the Advisory Committee appointed under the
China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1925, should be deferred,
21519/26 penting the consideration of my secret despatch of the 18th
October, 1926, you told me that His Majesty's Government had
not reached a decision with regard to the introduction of
the legislative measures required to give effect to the
Committee's recommendations, and assured me that no such
decision would be taken without full consideration of my
representation on behalf of the University of Hong Kong. trust that I am right in assuming that His Majesty's
Government is still undecided with regard to the Advisory
Committee's recommendations.
g.
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In my secret despatch of the 18th October,
1926, I ventured to criticize the proposed establishment in
China of such a Board of Trustees as the Advisory Committee
advocated. If in October, 1926, the proposal was
impracticable; it is fer more impracticable now. I need not emphasise this point; but I venture to remind you that there
is not at the moment visible any sign of any possible lull
in the storm of faction which is devastating China.
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