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From CHINA.
Decode.
Sir M. Lampson (Nanking)
3rd June 1929.
D.
12.50 p.m.
3rd June 1929.
R.
12.20 p.m.
3rd June 1929.
No. 53. (R).
151
call
will
Indemnity.
I took
Your telegram No. 27 to me at Shanghai,
the opportunity of explaining your views at a further interview with Minister for Foreign Affairs on June 2nd.
Dr. Wang said he had been studying our drafts which he thought would be quite acceptable in principle though
some changes in the wording would be necessary e.g. proposals for grants to Hongkong University and Universities China committees should come originally from me and would therefore have to be (? earmarked) from main note and form the subject of an additional
pair of notes. I said I would submit it to you as
reasonable.
2.
We agreed that grant to Hongkong University should be increased by £15,000 to cover Chinese indebt- edness (stated in Hongkong telegram to Colonial Office of May 24th to amount to 112,407 dollars.
I told Dr. Wang that you could not approve currency reorganisation proposals which will I think now be dropped. I had previously said the same to
Minister of Finance.
4. In the course of discussion about board of trustees regarding which he had made it clear both
during
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