The Boxer Indemnity Funds:
Advisory Committee Endowed with Large Powers Lord Willingdon, chairman of the delegation which is being sent to China to advise the Statutory Com-joe with regard to the utilize tion of the British Boxer Indemnity funds, reached Shanghai on Monday by the R. M.S. Empress of Asia. Lord and Lady" Willingdon were met on board "the ship by H. M. Consul-General, Mr. S. Barton, and Mr. J. F. Brenan, Consul, and afte wards drove off to the British Ca sulate, where they are now staying.
According to present arrangements, Lord Willingdon expects to leave shortly for Peking, where he will stay a few days, and then return to Shanghai to meet the other foreign members of the delegation, Dame Adelaide Anderson and Professor W. E. Scothill, who are travelling' eastwards another route, and the three CI bers, Prof. Hu Ting and Dr.
China' Daily News" representative, Lord Willingdon said that the delegation, when complete, would either commence its duties by taking evidence in Shanghai with reference to the various matters volved, or travel to the interior at once, Questioned as to the scope of the investigations, he declined to give any details, at all events. not until he had consulted his Chinese colleagues. "All I can say," Lord. Willingdon continued, "is that the cope of our inquiries is an extremely broad one. We have large discretionary powers. It has generally been suggested to us that Great Britain should spend this money largely on educational work—this clit mean medical or any other kind of educational work.'
When reminded that the other day in'Shanghai_ the National Medical Association of China pass-a resolution to appeal to the British Government to allocate its remitted share of the Indemnity funds to public health work in this, country, Lord Willingdon at once became interested. "Of course, we are charged with the duty" of doing all'we can for China and the Chinese," he replied. "We shall probably defer a good deal to the views of our Chinese members.'
As in other Esatern countries in the past in China there had been too much of the "get-rich-quick and clear out" feeling among. business men from the West. They did not ize that the educational work their countries had done aniongst Eastern peoples had been responsible "for their progress and changed outlook, While they were growing into greater nations, they n help and. co-opera tion, particularly with regard to organization, which the W teach them.
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