No Hope of Applying Balance of the Boxer Indemnity to Sufferers in China London, May 19.
Replying to Mr, Geoffrey Pet (Conservative) in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Locker Lampson, the Und secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that £11, 000 stood to the credit of th 1 Boxer Indemnity Fund, bu! it was very' doubtful whether the fand could be applied to compensation of British subjects who had suffered losses at the hands of the Chinese Southern forces. It was algo contrary to the tenour of the Advisory Committee's recommenda-to Sir Walter de Freee (Conserv:
ye), Sir Laming Worthvgton-Evans, the Secratary of State for War, said that the situation in stable} of the Shanghai The question of transferring seetions of the force to healthier ad.
it stations during the coming: summer, he said, had not been overlooked.
Naval Strength in China Replying to Colonel Day (Labour) It-Colonel Headlam, on behalf of the Admiralty, said that the total naval personnel on the China Station, was approximately 13,
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