BOXER INDEMNITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 9, 8 December 1926, Page 10

BOXER INDEMNITY

SCHEME TO HELP CHINA. "LONDON, Dec. 1. Methods whereby the whole of Britain’s share in the Boxer indemnity is to be devoted to'the welfare of the Chinese are detailed in documents now issued. The papers include the report of the delegation with British and Chinese mmebers which toured China this year under the chairmanship of Lord Willingdon. The indemnity fund amounts to £11,000,000. The delegation’s main proposal, endorsed by an advisory committee and the Foreign Secretary, is that the control and administration of the funds should bo invested in a board of trustees established in China, and consisting of six Chinese and five British members, including at least one woman. EDUCATION AND RESEARCH. It is proposed that £350,000 be expended annually on agricultural education and the improvement of sicentific research, medicine and public health, and for other educational purposes. The committee also recommends an arrangement whereby a sum not exceeding £5,200,000 and not less than £3,500,000, during the years 1927-31, should be available for investment in railway construction in China, the proceeds from the investment to be devoted to maintaining in perpetuity educational and other work which it is proposed to assist.