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Dear Lord Willingdon,

12th May,1926.

In referring to our conversations I want to emphasise at the outset that, in sending to you and your deputation my letter of March 25th,1926, and its enclosures, I was not hurling at your heads on behalf of the University of Hongkong, a mass of new and unconscionable claims. In the Empire Parliamentary Association Report on Foreign Affairs for November and December,1922, (volume 3 No. 6), you will find the following statement:-

"The Boxer Indemnity.

The payments annually due to HM.Government and to other Governments on account of the Boxer Indemnity were, in accordance with a special agreement, suspended in 1917 for a term which expired at the end of 1922. The Japanese Government made it known some time ago that they intended to devote the payments when resumed to objects mutually beneficial to China and Japan; the U.S.Government have for years past devoted the balance due from China to the education of Chinese in America; and the French Government are in process of assigning their share to the resuscitation of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, in which a number of Chinese depositors were substantially interested.

The Pritish have now decided in principle to employ their portion of these funds on purposes which shall benefit Chinese and British interests in common. The amount involved is about £11,000,000, a large sum in the present state of our finances. The view generally propagated in England is that the money should be chiefly spent on educating Chinese in Western ways, and especially on the instruction of promising young men in technical industries in Great Britain. It is an open question whether it is good for a young Chinese to be brought up so long in a foreign country that he becomes almost an alien to his own, and there is for that reason quite a respectable body of opinion in favour of supporting the Hong Kong University and other similar institutions in China which are well acquainted with the needs of the country.'

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When the British Chambers of Commerce of China

met in Shanghai in 1923, certain resolutions were carried unanimously, among these resolutions were the following:-