F 1299/57/10
March
85
Sir M. Lampson,
No.
Peking.
Your telegram No. 144 (of February 16th:
Boxer Indemnity).
You should now take steps to persuade the
Chinese Government themselves to ask for a
return of the Indemnity funds, suggesting to
then 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
instruet Mr. Newton to start preparatory work
on these lines.
The assurances which we should like to
obtain are as follows!»
(1) That the Chinese Government will deal
with/