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TREASURY CHAN6 JUL 13

10th January, 1913.

Sir: -

I have laid before the Lords Commissioners of His

Majesty's Treasury Sir W. Langley's letter of the 2nd

ultimo (50647/12), relative to a scheme for the establish-

ment and endowment of a University in the centre of

China under British auspices to be financed out of

moneys to be received from China in payment of the

Boxer Indemnity, and I am to request you to lay before

Secretary Sir Edward Grey the following reply.

This proposal raises two questions, first the

desirability of an expenditure of £400,000 on a Univer-

sity such as is suggested, and second the general

question of the proper utilisation of the moneys

received by the Exchequer on account of the Boxer

Indemnity. It appears to My Lords that these two

questions have no necessary connection and that the

introduction of the latter only tends to confuse the

issue raised by the former.

The method in which the Boxer Indemnity receipts

should be used was considered in 1905 and 1906 and, as

The Under Secretary of State,

Sir

Foreign Office.