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1299/57/10.)
To CHINA.
telegram to Sir M. Lempson (Peking).
Foreign Office. 5th April, 1929. 5.30 p.m.
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Your telegram
Indemnity).
of February 16th: /Boxer
You should now take steps to persuade the
Chinese government themselves to ask for a return of
the indemnity funds, suggesting to them that if they
will voluntarily offer certain written assurances as
to the way in which the money will be expended, it
will assist you in obtaining a favourable decision
from His Majesty's Government, and it will assist
His Majesty's Government in obtaining parliamentary
sanction for the surrender of control over so large
a sum of money. You may instruct Mr. Newton to
start preparatory work on these lines.
2. The assurances which we should like to
obtain are as follows:-
(1) That the Chinese government will deal with
the funds more or less on the lines of the Buxton
Committee's report.
(2) That the Chinese government will invest
the moneys already in hand and due for payment shortly
in the rehabilitation of existing railways and that
the money thus invested will be regarded as a loan
to the railways so as to form an endowment fund for
educational purposes.
(3)