CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929 — Page 43

inconsis

at with observance of the

greement, for the Chinese Goverment to give

or for ourselves to edcapt an assurance that

the purchases will be confined to the United

Kingdom.

3.

If you osn satisfy yourself that the

Chinese Government have definitely and irre-

voonbly made up their minds to use the bulk

af

of the returned funds for the completion of

the Canton-Hankow railway I mugent that you

should inform the Chinese that we propose to

drop the whole question of na6

ences in

gard to placing of orders in this country,

except in so far as may be necessitated by

41

paragraphs 4 sad

of this te

that

we will retain only the sums of two hundred and

fifty thousand pounds for Hong Kong University

sad two hundred thousand pounds for the China

Universities Committee, and release the

remainder for use by the Chinese Government

on the centon-Hankow railway construction

subject to receiving their formal assurance

that t sy will duly observe the terms of the

Hukuang.