Copy.
No. 62708/29.
IMMEDIATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
14
Downing Street,
30th May, 1929.
To Gov. Tel.28.5.29.
Fr.Gov.Tel.28.5.29. Fr.Gov.Tel.29.5.29.
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Amery to
refer to previous correspondence on the subject of
the disposal of the Boxer Indemnity Funds, ending with
your letter F. 2629/57/10 of the 27th May and to
transmit to you to be laid before Secretary Sir Austen
Chamberlain, copies of telegraphic correspondence on
the subject with the Governor of Hong Kong.
2.
Mr. Amery would be glad to learn what reply
Sir Austen Chamberlain would suggest should be returned
to Sir C. Clementi's suggestion as to the debt due from
the Chinese section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in
his telegram of the 29th of May.
3.
In the event of its not being found possible
to include this debt in the payments to be made out of
the Boxer Indemnity Funds His Majesty's Minister will
no doubt take a suitable opportunity of pressing the
Chinese Government to discharge them.
I am, etc.,
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE
FOREIGN OFFICE.
(Signed) W.D.ELLIS.