No 255.
FO
23141/26
Sir,
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RECE
23JUN 1927
COL. OFFICE
GOVERNMENT
HOUSE,
HONGKONG.
18th May, 1927.
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In January last you were good enough to inform me that the Report of the Advisory Committee appointed under the China Indemnity (Application) Act
1925 had been published, but that His Majesty's Government had not yet reached a decision with regard to the introduction of the legislative measures required to give effect to the Committee's recommendations. You
assured me that no final decision would be taken without
full consideration of my representation on the behalf of the University of Hong Kong.
2.
I venture once again to ask you to impress
on His Majesty's Government the extreme desirability of making over to the Hong Kong University out of the Chinese Indemnity Fund the total capital sum for which that University has asked, namely 1,404,000. As I have already pointed out, money more than sufficient to cover this sum is lying in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Indemnity fund. If such a contribution
be regarded as impossible, I would press most strongly for a sum of $2,300,000 or £230,000 for the establishment
and endowment of the proposed Chinese School. This sum includes the cost of constructing a separate building of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.
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