Chinese Proposal to Use Money, for Canton-Hankow Line London, Jat the House of Commons today, Mr. F. C, Cocks, Labour member for Broxtowe, asked the reason for the delay in' settling the question of the disposal of the Boxer Indemnity. monies, The Foreign Secretary, Mr, Arthur Henderson, said that the Chinese Government's proposal to invest the bulk of the funds in the: completion of the Cantor-Hankow Railway brought to the fore ques tions concerning: pre-existing agree ments and obligations, which ro. quired careful consideration and had delayed progress towards satisfac tary arrangements in regard to the Indemnity.
The new were. now being His Majesty's Minister' to. China (Sir Miles Lampson) and the Chie ese Government.
Tu reply to Sir Walter de Proce, Conservative member for Blackpool, Mr. Henderson said that the prin: ciples suggested in the Memorandum of December 18, 1026, as the bassia of the policy of the Powers. prin= pally concerned in Chine, had been since consistently seted upon by successive governments in Great Britain, The Foreign Secretary proceeded to enumerate the actions of Britain that comiection, these compris ing formal recognition of Chin's wht, (9. tari autonomy and the present negotiations at" Nanking: vith regard. to the abolition of extraterritoriality. Ho also related. the stops taken in pursuance of the offer of His Majesty's Government of various concessions to Chinn, a contained in the Memorandum of January 1, 1927—Reuter.
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