DIEU
MON
DROIT
Government House,
3 ong Kong.
4th June, 1929.
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Dear Wilson,
Please allow me to introduce to you Mr. W. W.
Hornell, C.I.E., Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong University.
He is going on leave to England, in order to make a last
effort to plead the cause of the Hong Kong University for a
liberal share in the Boxer Indemnity.
It is a matter, in my opinion, of great importance
to Anglo-Chinese relations that the Hong Kong University
should be put beyond the reach of the financial troubles,
from which it now suffers chronically, and that it should be
enabled to create within itself a really efficient faculty
of Chinese studies. We cannot hope to raise enough money
for these purposes locally, but I cannot think of any object
to which the Boxer Indemnity funds could more usefully be
devoted.
I hope you will yourself see Mr. Hornell and
hear what he has to say.
Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Wilson,
G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.B.E.,
Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
LONDON,
ENGLAND.
Yours sincerely,
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