CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 44

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(No. F.3499/6/10).

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Foreign Office,

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July 24th, 1928.

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by

dear Lee

I have received the enclosed statement from

Sir Charles Eliot regarding the story to which I re-

ferred in my letter of May 21st.

Of course I never suggested that Sir Charles was opposed to a grant to the Hongkong University from the indemnity funds; but I did understand him to allege

a social treatment in Hongkong which embittered the

Chinese, and perhaps I did not sufficiently distinguish

between Hongkong and the University.

The story was told

me in illustration of a passage in a letter from him on the Chinese situation as it existed just before he left

Tokio at the beginning of 1926.

Yes. Sincerely Austa Chamberlan

The Right Hon.

L. S. Amery, M. P.