CO129-501-2 Chinese situation- Boxer indemnity 5-2-1927 - 14-12-1927 — Page 88

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Mr. E. J. Harding.

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Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Sir

Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Earl of Clarendon.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

still rather in the dark

as to what is happening with regard to

the Boxer Indemnity proposals. I see

that you are going ahead with arrangements

for the constitution of a provisional

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committee, but there appears to be a gap

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SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, K.G.in the correspondence which has reached

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us

therefore from amfills

and it is not at all clear what

progress has been made in consultation

with Lampson on the larger question of

modifying our policy.

It would seem that this question

still remains open and that we are marking

time until events compel us to take a

definite decision, but if this is so,

is it not possible that the constitution

of a provisional committee may prove an

embarrassing commitment? I do not know

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in what terms Lampson replied to your No.

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