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Mr. Binil 1919

Mr. Surent

Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey.

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Concurrence March Aliques

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to to a draft-

for

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir,

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

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Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clarendon,

Mr. Amery.

DRAFT.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

No. 496

GOVERNOR.

Cond. 276

2.

SEP 1927

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Copy in draft

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Downing Street,

September 1927.

27 OCT 1927

With reference to your despatch

No.408 of the 16th of July in which you ask

to be furnished with information in regard to

the disposal of the British share of the Boxer

Indemnity, I have etc. to transmit to you a

copy of the Report of the China. Indemnity

Advisory Committee appointed under the China

Indemnity Application) Act 1925 from which it

will be seen that it is intended to establish

a Board of Trustees in China to administer the

Indemnity funds.

2.

Before a Board of Trustees can be

established it will be necessary to obtain the

necessary authority by means of an Act of

Ene-

Parliament, owing to existing conditions in

,

China it has not yet been found possible to

introduce a Bill for the purpose. In the

meantime the funds are being allowed to

accumulate and no action is being taken for

their