purposes.

(3).

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If funds permit, the urgently necessary work

in connexion with the conservancy of the Hopei rivers

and the Huai river will similarly be financed out of the

monies in question.

With regard to future instalments of indemnity

funds, these will be administered and apportioned by a

Board of Trustees to be created by the Chinese government

in accordance with the plan as laid down in the second

paragraph of the present note."

Ends.

Note B.

Begins.

His Majesty's Minister to Minister for Foreign

Affairs.

"I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

Your Excellency's note of today's date on the subject

of the disposal of the balance of the British share of

the indemnity of 1901, in which you inform me of the

intention of the Chinese government, in the event of

the British government returning the said indemnity

funds to their control, to create out of the said

indemnity funds an endowment to be devoted to educational

purposes, in harmony with the general views set forth

in the report of the Anglo-Chinese Advisory Committee

published in 1926.

I am communicating the text of Your Excellency's note to His Majesty's Government for their consideration, and in the meantime by the direction of my government I have the honour to suggest to Your Excellency that a sum of £250,000, and a further sum of £200,000, be set

aside

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