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CHINA.
Cypher telegram to Sir M. Lampson (Peking),
Foreign Office, 11th February, 1929.
No. 61.
109
10.30 p.m.
My telegram No. 6 (of January 5th: Boxer
Indemnity).
1. His Majesty's Government have decided to remit
to China future instalments of Indemnity; and it is
their intention to take similar decision as regards
instalments already paid subject to legislative
sanction by Parliament and therefore to an element of
uncertainty and delay.
2. The form of remission will be unconditional,
but His Majesty's Government are anxious if possible to
obtain some assurances as to expenditure of the funds.
The best way of attaining this object would be on the
lines indicated in your telegram No. 1393, viz: that
initiative should come from the Chinese side in the
following manner.
3. National government should address e note to
you asking for a settlement of Indemnity question, and
stating that it is their desire to deal with the money
more or less on the lines of the recommendations of the
Buxton Advisory Committee, and especially to proceed
with the expenditure on railways of moneys already in
hand and due for payment in the near future with a view
to the creation of an endowment fund eventually to be
applied to educational purposes; that it is intended in
the.
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