CO129-501-2 Chinese situation- Boxer indemnity 5-2-1927 - 14-12-1927 — Page 96

501 Hong Kong.

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Mr. Clutterbuck

Jr. Becket 81

Mr.

Mr. E. J. Harding.

Sir C. Strachey.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

× Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. WilsonT.

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7/7

fo

Mr. Ormsby-Gore. 1.7.27

Earl of Clarendon,

Mr. Amery. hu 12

Conson.v.min.

DRAFT.

70. concurrence

for 70

SIR WALTER DE FRECE.M.P.

for the Scendary of Statis signatan

Downing Street,

16

July 1927.

It is quite true that the

Hong Kong University hopes to obtain

a grant from Boxer Indemnity Funds,

but it is by no means certain that it

will be able to do so. You will

remember that, as the scheme stands

at present, a Board of Trustees is to

be established in China and all

applications for gra: ts are to be

addressed to the Board.

In the

meantime no action is being taken with

regard to the money now lying in the

Bank. The Board is to have a Chinese

majority