British Education in China and the
Boxer Indemnity.
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In 1917, when China joined the Allies in the Great War, the
16 JUL indemnity which had been pɛaid to Great Britain as a result of the Boxer Rising of 1900, was cancelled for five years.
It therefore becomes due again in 1982, and the question arise
as to whether the British Government is going to demand
renewal of payments or whether it is going to follow,
example of America and France and divert the indemnity to
cause of education,
In this connection it must be remembered that in the British
Colony of Hong Kong there has bean established a University'
whose degrees are recognised as being equal in value to those
of other British universities and which in the eyes of the
Chinese represents in China higher education as controlled
and subsidised by the British Government.
It is essential therefore in any scheme which has for its
object the closer linkage by education of Great Britain and
China that the position of Hong Kong University as an educational
link between the two countries should first be recognised.
Money released by the remission of the indemnity should be
apent in three directions.
1. In helping to maintain the efficiency of the
University of Hong Kong.
2. In establishing a scholarship fund whereby students
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eeuld be encouraged to enter the University.
3. In establishing a fellowship fund whereby graduates
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could be sent from China to the Universities of Britain.