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CHINA,
Decode.
Sir M. Lampson, (Nanking).
20th June 1929.
D.
11.50 p.m. 20th June 1929.
R.
9.0 a.m. 21st June L929.
No. 99. (R).
99
My immediately preceding telegram.
Following are texts of indemnity notes.
Begins.
Note A.
From Minister for Foreign Affairs to His Majesty's
Minister.
"I have the honour to refer Your Excellency to the
declaration made by the British Government in December
1922, that the balance of the British share of the indemni-
ty of 1901 would thenceforward be devoted to purposes
mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain and to ex-
press the hope that the British Government will at once
take steps to remit all payments of the indemnity as from
December 1st 1922 to the unfettered control of the National
government of the Republic of China.
In the event of such remission being effected, it
is the intention of the Chinese government to create out
of the said indemnity funds an endowment to be devoted
to educational purposes in harmony with the general views
set forth in the report of the Anglo-Chinese Advisory Committee published in 1926, to which (? grp. omtd.)
will be invited.
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