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Enclosure t
Hong Kong, 30th warch, 1926.
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Rt Hon Viscount Willingdon, [email protected].,G.B.Z., c/o British Consulate General, Shanghai.
My Lord,
His Excellency, the Chancellor, has already, we
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understand, sent forward for the consideration of your Lordship
and the other members of the Boxer Indemnity Deputation a detailed scheme for the development and expansion of the University of Hong Kong. A pamphlet written by the Vice- Chancellor on the origin and growth of the University is also, we believe, in Your Lordship's hands. We are members of the Court and the Council of the University, as also the two representatives of the Chinese Community on the Hong Kong Legislative Council. We know the feelings and wishes not onl of the Chinese commnity of the Colony of Hong Kong but also of the more conservative elements of the Chinese people generally. It is on this basis that we venture to approach Your Lordship to express our appreciation of what the University has done, and our confidence that the strong claim of the University to share in any educational benefits to Chins which His Majesty's Government may decide to finance out of the Boxer Indemnity, will not be overlooked.
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We desire to emphasise at the outset that the founders of this University always insisted that the Univer- sity was not for the Colony of Hong Kong alone but for the Chinese people generally. It was on this understanding that the University secured supporters from Chinese throughout China, among the most enthusiastic of whom was the then Viceroy of Canton, His Excellency Chan Jen Chun.
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Owing to financial and other internal difficulties, and the unsettled condition of China which followed on the great European war, the University has experienced some
set-backs.
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