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aside from accumulated funds now on deposit, to be donated, respectively to Hongkong University for the education of Chinese students and to the Universities China Committee in London for the promotion of closer

cultural relations between China and Great Britain. The grant to the Universities China Committee will be invested as an endowment fund, the proceeds of which will be used, inter alia, for inviting eminent Chinese

to give lectures in Great Britain."

Note C.

Minister for Foreign Affairs to British Minister.

"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 British share of the indemnity of

1901, which contained the following proposal from British

government;

That a sum of £250,000 (quote Note B. in full).*

In reply I have the honour to state that the

Chinese government is in agreement with the above pro-

posal."

Note D.

From British Minister to Minister for Foreign

Affairs.

"I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your

Excellency's note which reads as follows (quote the

whole of Note A).

I have also the honour to acknowledge receipt of

Your Excellency's note of which reads as follows

(quote the whole of Note C).

I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I

duly.

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