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sole responsibility, and I must request that it be regarded for the present not as the Report of the Delegation sent to China by the Universities China Committee but as my own report on matters which have a direct or indirect bearing on the subjects in connection with which I was asked by the Colonial Office to visit Hong Kong. The Economic Mission's Report

and I also venture to invite atten- is quoted on pp.14-16;

tion to the references to Hong Kong on pp. 46-51 and else-

where, and to Canada on pp. 31-2,38-9 and 65.

4. It will be observed that in Section ii of

my draft report I have criticised somewhat severely the recent Boxer indemnity agreement, but I think I have not

I referred to this done so more severely than it deserves. matter in paragraph 3 of my letter of November 8th last. The

Report of Lord Willingdon's Delegation which visited China

and investigated the Boxer indemnity problem in 1926 was

drafted by myself, and I think I may therefore claim to have

some knowledge of the principles which underlay the Willingdon

recommendations and to be entitled to give free expression

to my views on the new agreement which to my mind indicates

a disastrous change of policy. When I wrote my letter of

January 21st last to Sir Samuel Wilson I had not had an oppor-

tunity of studying the new agreement in all its bearings,

and I did not realise how great was the departure from the

principles of the Willingdon Report.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servant

R.Z. Johuslän

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

LONDON, S.W.1.