W.
In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No.
F 3633/57/10
and address-
not to any person by name,
but to-
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
IMMEDIATE.
London, S.W.1.
Sir,
Cor: fldential,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
77
S.W. 1.
35
2nd August, 1929.
(8m 62782)
I am directed by Mr.Secretary Henderson to refer
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to the letter from this department F 2426/57/10 of the 5th
July last transmitting for the concurrence of Lord Passfield
a draft of a despatch which it was proposed to send to His
Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the completion
of the Canton Hankow Railway out of British Boxer Indemnity
funds.
2.
On the 19th July a further telegram was received
from Sir M.Lampson repeating a telegram from Shanghai dated
the 14th July in which Mr.Aveling reported the gist of a
conversation with Mr.Choy representing the Chinese Minister
of Railways. A copy of this telegram was forwarded in
~62782) Foreign office letter F 3633/57/10 of 20th July and a further
(15~62782)
copy is enclosed herein for convenience of reference. If,
as this telegram seems to show, the Chinese Government have
determined to use the bulk of the returned Indemnity funds
for the completion of the Canton Hankow Railway then in view
of the considerations contained in the draft despatch forming
enclosure to the Foreign Office letter under reference, the
question of obtaining assurances as to the placing of orders
in the United Kingdom would appear to have become largely
academic. On that assumption Mr. Henderson is of opinion
that His Majesty's Government should now drop the whole
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial office.
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