The Government has just _introduced the Chinese Indemitity Bill and clearly intends to pass it into law. It has, in the first, place, created a storm by removing from the Advisory Committee two nominees of the late Government, Mr, Bertrand Russell and Mr. Lowes: Dickinson, The Labour Party me tend to take the earliest opportunity. of criticizing the Government on the subject, and they attribute its action mainly to the Government's alleged desire to change the objects: to which the indemnity is applied, and to spend part of it at least on railway works in China instead of fon Chinese education. The official reason for the Government's action 4s, however, that the Cabinet desires to have on the Committee, members who are thoroughly acquainted with China and its government and institutions.
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