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From the "Hongkong Daily Press' dated 30th. April, 1901.
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DEPUTATION TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR.
CANTONESE GRATITUDE FOR LANT YEAR'S ASSISTANCE.
An interesting ceremony, and one cal- culated to promote Anglo-Chinese good- foeling in South China, teok place at Go- vernment House yesterday forsucon, when a deputation of Cantonese medical students of the Tientsin Medical College waited on H.E.< the Governor to present an address expressing their gratitude to H.E. for the assistance rendered last year to the Cantonese at Tientsin. It will be remembered that H.E. guaranteed the coat of the passages south of Cantonese desirous of leaving Tientsin (where they were at least in as much danger from the Boxers as were the European residents), while the money was raised by subscription among the loading Chinese merchants here. The deputation yester- day was introduced by Mr. Ts'oi Yenk-Shan, and after they had been received by His Ex- cellency presented the following address :-----
Hongkong, 26th April.
YOUR EXCELLENCY.
We, the undersigned medical students of the Tientsip Medical College, do hereby desire to thank Your Excellency for the kind thoughts of us and our welfare during the troubles at Tientsin when we were placed in imminent' danger.
Through your timely despatches and instruc- tions to the British Officers in authority up the north, we were placed in comparative safety Indeed, through our own safety we were in a position to render some help to the sufferers. both natives and Europeans. This is due to Your Excellency's endeavours, and not to any- thing we dare to boast of.
Wo humbly wish to place our gratitude on record and sincerely hope that Your Excellency will accept not only our own thanks but also that of our families and countrymen.
We have the honour to be, your Excellency. your Excellency's most obedient servants,
YAU KING-SHAM. HSIAO CHI-NAU. WOO WAI-U. WONG MAN TOO. LAI SHUT-WING. WOO CHI-FIN. TSUE YING YANG. KWAU KING SING. WAU PING MAN. TONG FUO-MAN.
To II. E.
TSO U HIM.
LUENG KING CHEONG. WONG YUN SHIU.
Sir HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,
overnor of Hongkong, etc., etc., etc. His Excellency then replied as follows:- Gentlemen,I assure you that it gave me very great pleasure to be able to assist you and the Cantonese people who found themselves exposed to danger from the Boxer movement in the North, and I congratulate you on your escape from that sorely harassed portion of China. The misguided mon who entered upon · this anti-foreign movement must now see how wicked and foolish was an outbreak of hosti- lities that has already cost China kundreds of thousand of lives, and will cost her hun. dreds of millions of Taels. When you re- turn to your horaes you will be able to appreciate the blessings of peace, so happily preserved in the Southern provinces, and I hope the day is not far distant when you may able to resume your medical work, for the future of China is in the hands of those young men who are now devoting themselves to scientific and economic studies. I am glad to learn from you that you have all been at one time students of Queen's College, as you give a most agreeable evidence of the usefulness of that institution. I thank you for your ex- pression of good will, which I heartily recipro- · pate, not alone towards yon, but towards the Chinese people, in whose welfare the King and the people of Great Britain have always taken a friendly interest.
The deputation then withdrew.
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