CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8] — Page 373

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which they are concerned without their coppuration.

MR. CHEN: Does that exhaust your points?

MR. KEMP : Yos.

If you add the objection to the delay in the settlement of the boycott as the proposal stands at present.

The Chinese dulcgation then left the room for a con- sultation, which lasted fifteen minutes. On their return

in.

MR. CHEN: We will deal first with the point concerning the French. We have no objection to the French being brought We consider the French question a suparate issue and would prefer that it would be decided suparately. If the British delegation insist on bringing them in we have no objection, but it would suit us better to dual suparately with the British and Chinese question and the French and Chinos question.

In the matter of the preliminary expenses of the

ommission we wish to state that we are prepared to follow

International practice and this also applies to the matter

of the deposit.

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As concerns the question of the liability of witnesscs,

at this distance of time this criticism applics to allywitnesscG

equally. Cross-examination, addresses and summing-up will

savi

all that.

We wish to state that (f) in our Enquiry proposal staturunt

will exclude lotters to the papers, but will not exclude despatches

As to Mr. Kump's point as to the fitness of the Judgus to undertale

the double duty, I wish to emphasise our views on this point.

First, the Conference

rone has reached the point where the Chinese

dologation think that a third party must be entrusted with the