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very little for the University of Hong Kong, in spite of
the example set by the Government of China which, before the
Manchu Empire fell, made a grant to the University's
endowment fund. The Chinese communities of Canton, Wuchow,
Tuchang, Amoy, Saigon, Penang and Australia also sent
subscriptions, while the Viceroy of the Liang Kuang
provinces, at the time when the University was found ed,
collected the sum of $200,000 as a contribution to its
endowment. In doing so he wrote, "Of late our students
residing abroad have caused us the greatest anxiety.
the other hand, Hong Kong is so close to us that our young men, who go there to study, will be almost in sight and hearing of their superiors". The value of the Hong Kong University has thus been recognized both by Chinese officials, merchants and scholars, and by the Chinese Goverment as well. Is it then too much to ask that the British Government, having in its hands a fund for the promotion of Anglo-Chinese interests
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million pounds sterling now at its disposal, make such a grant to the Hong Kong University as will relieve its financial embarrassment and permit of its further expansion?
As regards the special work which this University could do for Hong Kong, for China and for the world, I invite Your Lordship's attention to the address which I delivered to the Congregation of the University on the 14th January, 1929, copies of which I enclose herewith. I would also invite Your Lordship's attention to the speech which I made at Congregation of the University on the 13th of this month, copies of which I enclose in this despatch. If His Majesty's Government, as I then said, will but decide that the University of Hong Kong is an institution with
which