CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 108

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board must be established after consultation with and in agreement with His Majesty's Government but C.T. Wang who would probably deal with the matter is quite capable of publishing the names of his nominees with- out consulting us and then asking us to agree to them, which might mean rushing through amending act if we wished to avoid the appearance of hanging back at the

last moment.

There seems possibility of Tsai Yuan-pei and C.T. Wang himself coming up to Peking within the next month. Do you not think it would be well to suspend action until I have had opportunity of seeing them and ascertaining their views on the whole question.