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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM.
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From the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of
State for the Colonies.
Dated 29th May, 1929.
(Received Colonial Office 7.25 a.m. 29th May, 1929).
See (3)
Your telegram of 28th May. Debt due on
account of Kowloon-Canton Railway.
It would appear from Lampson's telegram
to the Foreign Office No. 11 of 21st March and
Foreign Office telegram to Lampson No. 37 of 5th April,
that assurances will be required from the Chinese
Government that Boxer Indemnity Funds will be
invested for repayment of the Railway debts and
rehabilitation of existing railways. I urge very
strongly therefore that debt of $997,596 details of
which were given in my telegram of 28th May should be
brought prominently to the notice of the Chinese
Government in connection with these assurances and that
this sum also should be covered by the assurances
actually given.
Addressed to Secretary of State for the
Colonies No. 6 of 29th May repeated to His Majesty's
Minister at Nanking.