CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 133

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My dear Avery

Foreign Office,

10

S.W.1.

21st May, 1928.

In reply to your letter of May 14th, I

understand that Clementi will be in England this

year, and I would suggest that he should take the

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opportunity to speak to Lord Buxton and to our

people here on the subject of the claims of his

University. The future of our Indemnity policy depends so largely on events in China, and the

position is at present so obscure, that I cannot

give you any definite reply to his appeal.

may be able to get on now with the appointment of the Board of Trustees in China; or we may make

some small beginnings, acting under the 1925 Act. A despatch on the subject from Lampson is now on

its way here. In the case of the former, Hongkong University has been specially mentioned as one of

The Right Honourable

L. S. Amery, K.P.

the