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£250,000

£200,000

question of obtaining such assurances; that they should

as already stipulated retain here only the sums of two

hundred and fifty thousand pounds for Hongkong University

and two hundred thousand pounds for the China Universities

Committee, and release the remainder for use by the

Chinese Government on the Canton Hankow railway construction,

subject to receiving their formal assurance that they

will duly observe the terms of the Hukuang Agreement of

1911 when placing orders for work on that department.

3.

I am to enclose to be laid before Lord Passfield

the accompanying copy of the draft of a telegram which

Mr.Henderson would now propose subject to his concurrence

to address to Sir M.Lampson embodying instructions in this

sense.

4.

Mr.Henderson is anxious to obtain an early

decision in this matter and he hopes that Lord Passfield

will give this matter his immediate attention and communicate

to him his views on the course of action now proposed as

soon as possible.

5.

It will no doubt be recalled that the construction

of the Canton Hankow railway was one of the schemes the

adoption of which the Advisory Committee recommended to the

Secretary of State in their report as being of mutual

advantage to the two countries and calculated to improve

their future relations.

6.

In the event of Lord Passfield being unable to

concur in the terms of the draft telegram Mr.Henderson

proposes to submit the question for the decision of the

Cabinet.