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(10) Every effort should be made to help Chinese

students (particularly engineering students) to come to

British Universities and to send British lecturers and/or

equipment to Chinese Universities.

(11) Co-operation with the Chinese is essential

for modern trade with China. Support should be given

to the unofficial Sino-British Trade Councils formed at

and every effort made to secure

Shanghai and Hankow,

the establishment of en official Sino-British Trade

Council at Nanking.

(12) The Governor of the Bank of England should be

asked to consult with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

and with the Chartered Bank as to the possibility of

improving facilities for British trade in China and as

to the policy of these banks generally.

(13) The Embassy and Consuler Services should be

urged to pay more attention to British trade: and the

Consular Service should, in particulen be overhauled.

(14) The position of the International Settlement at

Shanghai does not appear at the moment to be in any danger:

but every effort should be made to maintain it and to improve

its administration.

(15) The possibility of Hong Kong joining in a Customs

Union with China should be examined.

(16) The advisability of linking up the Indian and Burmese railway systems with China by the construction of a

line to Yunnan Fu should be examined.

(Signed) F. W. LEITH-ROSS.

4th September, 1936,

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