CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5] — Page 241

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SECRET.

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 19th March,1926.

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Eture 1.

when the arrival in China of Lord

Willingdon's Mission was imminent, I prepared in

collaboration with Mr. ■W.Hornell, C.1.M., Vice

Chancellor of the nongkong university, the

attached letter dated the 4th February, which

as Chancellor of the University 1 addressed to

Lord Willingdon. This letter was a request that

the Mission should pay an early visit to nongkong

and consider the requirements of the Hongkong

University in connection with the allocation

of Boxer Indemnity funds. I handed my letter

to Mr. S.Barton, C.M.G., B.M.Consul veneral at

Shanghai, who was then on a visit to me, requesting him

to deliver it to Lord willingdon and to reinforce

it with his own arguments.

2.

Subsequently on the 28th seoruary,

Mr. Barton wrote to me from Shanghai as follows:-

"Lord Willingdon arrived on the 24th "ebruary

R

and has just left for Tientsin en route for Peking.

lf the fighting allows him through, his idea is

to see the minister and any Chinese Government

which may exist and then return here for the Right Honourable

Lieutenant Colonel L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P.,

&C.,

&0.

&C..

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