CO129-512-4 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 22-12-1928 - 9-5-1929 — Page 89

) regards the Board of Trustees, I agree

that this question should not be raised by us

but left entirely to the wishes of the National

Government.

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5. As regarda paragraph 2 of your telegram

under reference, I cannot agree to the linking

the Boxer Indemnity question with that of the

payment of debts to British fires.

separate question, however, you should certainly

urge the Chinese to pay their just debta; and

if they choose voluntarily, either now or later,

to make arrangements for paying debts due by

them out of the Fund, I should welcome their

doing so.

6. Lord Buxton and available members of his

Committee concur in the above proposals, and in

their adaption if and when Kis Majesty'

Government decide that the moment is propitious

for taking such action. As regards assurance

2, although in their original Report the funds

were to be applied to new railway construction,

they now consider that owing to the plight into

which existing railways have fallen since the

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