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that supremacy in China, which our commerce, armies and
fleets enjoy. This im is extremely important for it is
the foreign trained student who is in control in Ching today.
It is a mere convenience that the University is placed
in H.K. which guarantees it the security in which its work
can be carried on uninterruptedly. It supplies or ought to
supply local went out its mission is imperii rther than
local.
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We cannot therefore understand the attitude of the
Home Government on this question of the
on this question of the boxer Indemnity Dame
Adelaide Anderson's view was that we were local, and the
local British view is that we ore laporial and so between
the two we get little or no support. Well perhaps, Sir
Michael, you are familiar with all this, for your knowledge
of such things is vast. Still I cannot help expressing
stagant, through
my fear that this univ.rsity will gro stoga nt,
sheer despondency unless we can see some t ngible form of
encouragement to expiac. True there is a school of
Chinese stuales being developed by Sir Cecil Clementi tho has
induced the Govt. to subsidise it to tax extent of 3200
per annum temporarily, but I do not yet know whether there
will be Chinese enough to go in for the old classical
training which is being not entirely alscarded on the
mainland. There will no doubt be in the course of time a revival in these studies.
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With best wishes and kind regards to Lady
I am, Yours sincerely
Sadier and yourself.
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