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(F2754/57/10).
TO
CHINA.
Code telegram to Sir M. Lampson, (Hankow);
Foreign Office, 8th June 1929, 12.40 p.m.
No.1. (R).
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Your telegram No.53 (of June 3rd. Boxer Indemnity),
This appears to be satisfactory,
I agree that proposals for grents to Hongkong University and Universities Committee may be put forward
as from you in additional notes.
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Further grant of £15,000 to Hongkong is howSVER
a proposal from the Chinese side and should appear as
such. Moreover it is on a different footing from the
£250,000 grant and is the only case where a Eribish
claim is being met from Indemnity funds. We should
be exposed to criticism if we ourselves were to put
forward this claim and not others such as railway debts
etc. It should therefore be clearly shown that the
proposal comes from Chinese and not from British side,
Please telegraph texts of agreement as soon as
they are in shape.
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