"to be of "contamination by revolutionary elements. the thro! authorities say these do not exist. Miether the assumption of Isai
a
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Kau of my students will not be allowed to imbibe unhealthy political ideas with be fulfilled in threan's judgment is perhaps doubtful.
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16.4.14.
Most old Tories, who realised What are the ideas imbibed by undergratuated at Oxford today, would wish to close the University.
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really better than the
Chimiere! - they
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us in the invention of
the Comfors, which like du Maurier's
hero feels the Worth"
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+ CONFIDENTIAL.
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Sir,
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1 APR 14
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 20th. March, 1914.
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I have the honour to transmit for your informa-
- tion copy of a letter which Sir Charles Eliot, Vice-Chancellor of the Hongkong University,received in December last from ir. Alston at that time His Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking on the subject of the reluctance of the Chinese Government to send students to the Hongkong University.
2.
In consequence of that letter both Sir Charles Eliot and I addressed private letters to Sir John Jordan asking him to re-assure the President of the Chinese Republic on the subject of the political atmosphere of the University.
I enclose copy of my letter together with copy
of a letter from Sir John Jordan to Sir Charles Eliot enclosing one from Admiral Tsai Ting-kan.
It is satisfactory to learn that the mistrust
of Hongkong University as a training ground for Chinese students
has apparently been removed and that the Central Government is
likely to send students here.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
Brn.
Governor,&c..
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c. ..
&C..
&C..