CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929 — Page 107

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(5).

duly communicated your notes under acknowledgment to His

Majesty's Government, who have instructed me to inform

you in reply that they will at once take steps to remit

all payments of the indemnity in future to the unfettered

control of the National government of China and that in

due course, after the necessary legislation has been

passed in Farliament, His Majesty's Government will

transfer to the Chinese goverment the balance of

deposited funds, after having set aside the two sums of

£200,000 and £250,000 for the Universities China

Committee and Hongkong University respectively."

(The above note to be sont after the laying of

papors before the British Parliament.)

Note E.

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Minister for Foreign Affairs to British Minister.

"I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that it is the intention of the Chinese government, in

connexion with their programme of railway rehabilitation,

to include in the arrangements for such rehabilitation the early settlement of outstanding debts due to British merchants for rolling stock and other railway material already supplied to the lines in question."

Note F.

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British Minister to Minister for Foreign Affairs. "I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's note of today's date which reads as follows (quote Note E, in full),

I have the honour to take due note of the above

declaration."

Note G.

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