CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 56

SECRET

Received 21112.28

CABINET 58 (28)

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Extract from Conclusions of a Meeting held on Wednesday, 19th December, 1928, at 4.0. p.m.

CHINA

The Boxer Indemnity

(Previous Reference: Çabinet 20 (28) Con- clusion 9.)

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3. The Cabinet had before them the following

Memoranda in regard to the China Boxer Indemnity:-

A Note by the Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Cushendun) (Paper C.P.343 (28)) covering a Memorandum by the Far Eastern

Department of the Foreign Office containing a

suggestion that all future instalments of the

Boxer Indemnity should be released unconditionally

to the Chinese Government; together with tele-

graphic correspondence with His Majesty's Minister

at Peking, and a Minute of a conversation with Lord

Buxton:

A Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Paper C.P.359 (28)) urging that the sum

necessary for the further development of the Hong:

Kong University should be provided out of the

accumulated instalments of the Boxer Indemnity now

in our hands.

A Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Exchequer

(Paper