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REPORT.

Sir,

October 18, 1926. I HAVE the honour to submit the Report of the Statutory Committee (of which I am Chairman), established under "The China Indemnity (Application) Act, 1925," to advise regarding the allocation of the China Indemnity Fund for purposes beneficial to the mutual interests of His Majesty and of the Republic of China.

2. This Report takes the form of an analysis of the Report submitted by the Delegation which visited China under the Chairmanship of Lord Willingdon, and should be read in conjunction with that document. The Advisory Committee supports the general lines of the recommendations submitted by the Delegation, but has added thereto specific comments and recommendations of its own.

3. The members of the Advisory Committee concur unanimously in the terms of this Report.

The Right Honourable

I have the honour to remain,

Your obedient Servant,

BUXTON,

Chairman.

Sir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., M.P.

CONTENTS.

PART 1 Introductory

PART 11-Recommendations of Delegation, with Committee's Observations

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PART I.

INTRODUCTORY,

CHINA INDEMNITY (APPLICATION) ACT.

Passed 30th June, 1925.

THE original Act provided that the money paid and accumulated since December 1922 on account of the Boxer Indemnity should be applied to such educational and other purposes as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, after consultation with an Advisory Committee, were beneficial to the mutual interests of His Majesty and the Republic of China. The decision to establish a Board of Trustees in China (see paragraphs 31-42 below) will, however, necessitate an amendment of the Act in order to give power to the Board to apply the Fund to educational and other purposes, and to make such investments for the perpetuation of a portion of the Fund as the Board may determine in accordance with the general scheme and purposes laid down by the Advisory Committee.

2. The Advisory Committee was to consist of eleven persons, of whom at least one was to be a woman and at least two citizens of the Republic of China. The text

of the Act is set out in full in the Report of the Delegation, p. 6.

3. The Advisory Committee, as finally constituted under the terms of the Act, is as follows:-

The Right Hon. the Earl Buxton, G.C.M.G. (Chairman).

(Postnaster-General, 1905-10; President of the Board of Trade,

1910-14; Governor-General of South Africa, 1914–20.) The Right Hon. the Viscount Willingdon, G.C.M.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.LE., G.B.E. (Governor of Bombay, 1913-19; Governor of Madras, 1919–24.) Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G.

(Director of the Bank of England and Chairman of the London

Committee of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.)

Dame Adelaide Auderson, D.B. E., M.A.

(Principal Lady Inspector of Factories, Home Office, 1897-1921; assisted on Commission appointed by Shanghai Municipal Council to investigate Child Labour in Shanghai.)

Sir William Clark, K.C.S.I., C.M.G.

(Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade.) Professor Hu Shih, Ph.D., B.A.

(Lately Professor of Philosophy and English at Peking University.) Mr. G. A. Mounsey, C.M.G., O.B.E.

(Head of the Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office.)

Sir Christopher Needham.

(Governor of Manchester University since 1908; Chairman of the District Bank, Limited, Manchester; nominated to serve on the Committee by the Board of Trade.)

Professor W. E. Soothill, M.A.

(Professor of Chinese, Oxford University.)

Dr. V. K. Ting, D.Sc.

(General Manager, Peipiao Coal-Mining Company and Honorary

Director of the Geological Survey, China.}

Dr. C. C. Wang, Ph.D., LL.D., M.A.

(Formerly Managing Director of Peking-Mukden and Peking-Hankow

Railways and Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway.) Secretary: Mr. F. Ashton-Gwatkin.

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