PART I - Introductory

• Author: Chamberlam, Austen
• Pages: 5

PART I -INTRODUCTORY CHINA IiLDEMNrIT (APPLICATION) ACT

Passed 30th June, 1925.

The original Act provided that the money paid and accumulated since December 1922 on account of the Boxer Indemnty should be applied to such educational and other purposes as, m the opinion of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, after consultaton with an Advisory Committee, were beneficial to the mutual interests of His Majesty and the Republic of China The decision to establish a Board of Trustees in China (see paragraphs 84-42 below) wll, however, necessitate an amendment of the act m order to give power to the Board to applv the Fund to educational and other purposes, and to make such investments for the perpetuation of a portion of the Fund as the Board mav determine m accordance witn the general scheme and purposes laid down by the Advisory Committee 2 The Advisoiy Committee was to consist of eleven persons, of whom at least one was to be a woman and at least two citizens of the Republic of China The text of the Act is set out m full m the Report of the Delegation p 46

8 The Advisory Committee as finally constituted under the terms of the Act, is as follows The Right Hon the Earl Buxton, G C M G (Chairman) (Postmaster-General, 1905-10, President of the Board of Trade, 1910-14 Governor-General of South Africa, 1914-20

The Right Hon the Viscount Willngdon, G C M G, G C S I GCIE,GBE (Governor of Bombay. 1918-19, Governor of Madras, 1919-24 ) Sir Charles Addis, K C M G (Director of the Bank of England and Chairman of the London Committee of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank ) Dame Adelaide Anderson, D B E, M A (Princpal Lady Inspector of Factories, Home Office, 1897 -1921 assisted on Commission appointed by Shanghai Municipal Council to investigate Child Labow in Shanghal ) Sir William Clark, K C S I, C M G (Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade Professor Hu Shih, Ph D, B A.

(Lately Professor of Philosophy and English at Peking Unwvers ty) [15829] B

Mr G A Mounsey, CMG, 0BE (Head of the Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office) Sir Christopher Needham (Governor of Manchester University since 1908, Chairman of the District Bank, Limited, Manchester, nominated to serve on the Committee by the Board of Trade) Professor W E Soothill, M A (Professor of Chinese, Oxford University) Dr V K Tmg, DSc (General Manager Peiplao Coal-Mining Company and Honorary Director of the Geological Survey, China) Dr C C Wang, Ph D, LL D, M A (Formerly Managing Director of Pekmg-Mukden and Peking-Hankow Railways and Director-General of tho Chinese Eastern Railway ) Secretary Mr F Ashton-Gwatkm The original appointments to the Advisory Committee contained the names ofThe Right Hon Sir John Jordan, P C,G C M G, G C I E,

K C B, His Majesty's Minister Resident at Seoul, 1901-6, His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Peking, 1906-20

Major the Hon J J Astor, M P Mr S P Waterlow, C B E, former Head of the Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office Sir John Jordan took keen interest m the work of the Committee, attended the informal meetings and participated i the important early decisions His death m September 1925 deprived the Committee of the benefit of his great experience and rpe judgment.

This opportunity is taken to put on record their deep regret at his loss Major Astor unfortunately had to resign from the Committee owing to a prolonged absence abroad Mr Mounsey succeeded Mr Waterlow on the appointment of the latter as His Majesty's Minister to Siam 4 It is not necessary to detail here the history of the Boxer Indemnity A historic account is given m the Report of the...