CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 83

Ithink it wives

to emit all

This pana

8#16,

particular telegrams from the

set of China telegrams which

is sent over semi officially

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every day and which is understood

to include all telegrams on

China except the merest routine

I would omit all this [7

believe

matters.

Actually we did hear

what was goi

something of this development

Br

accidentally through a casual

conversation which Sir Cecil

Clementi had with Sir Victor

as a result of which I wrote to hand

on the 9th Nov. Wellesley Even from that,

however, we only understood that

the changing policy was being

considered in the F.0., and no

indication was given that the

British Minister had been

consulted and that a memorandum

to the Cabinet was contemplated.

J

am naturally reluctant to I can only conclude

that the F.0. kept us in the

dark