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Ceda telogram to H.M's. Consul General (3hanghai).
Foreign Office, May 23rd, 1927.
3.0 p.m.
No. 56.
(R).
Following for 3ir M. Lampsoni-
Your telegram No.830 (of May 6th. Boxer Indennity).
I regret that I cannot give any enco
this suggestion.
ant to
The adoption of any such proposal would be a complete
departure from the recommendation of the Advisory Committee,
namely, that all expenditure of funds should be determined
and carried out by a Board of Trustees with a Chinese
majority. Obviously, therefore, no anticipatory advance,
especially to a British controlled body, could be approved
by Advisory Committee. Hereover objection (2) in your
paragraph 5 seems so insuperable that Lord Buxton does not
think it necessary to submit suggestion to British members
of the Committee
Please repeat to Peking.
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