CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 82

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remember that I circulated a

memorandum to the Cabinet on

the subject in December 1926 and

Ormsby-Gore also circulated a

in my absence,

memorandum, in February this year.

Sir Cecil Clementi, Govr. of H.K.,

is very keen about it. He has

had interviews this summer with

feller be modified, or the F.O.

answer ready.

will have an

various officials in the F.0. and with

Lord Buxton, and you will remember that

it was proposed, just before you

went away, that he should discuss

it with you.

In view of our obvious

interest in the matter I should

naturally have assumed that the F.0.,

even if they did not consult us,

would have sent officially copies of the

telegraphic correspondence with Peking.

They not only failed to do that

but they deliberately anitted these

G.G

20-11-16

will require verbal alterations

if sent

so

is hard Cushendun.

particular