COPY.
Enclosure No. 2.
CONFIDENTIAL.
UNIVERSITY OF
OF HONG KONG.
31st March, 1931.
110
His Excellency,
The Chancellor, University of Hong Kong,
Government House,
Hong Kong.
My dear Chancellor,
I am very grateful to you for letting me have
copies of Sir Miles Lampson's letter to you of the 11th
March, 1931, and of the note recorded by Sir Miles
dated Nanking the 7th March, 1931, which was attached
to his letter. These copies came to me under your
office endorsement of the 25th March, 1931, and I note
that the documents are confidential.
2. Dr. C.T. Wang cited as an example of the
elimination of Chinese from the directing element of
the University the case of Dr. Wang Chung-hui's brother.
This case has been quoted against this University in
the Press and I welcome the opportunity of stating what happened, so far as that can be ascertained from the
records of the University.
five years
At the time the late Sir Charles
3. The incident occurred in 1919
before I came here.
Eliot (after a long period of absence from Hong Kong)
was on the point of resigning the Vice Chancellorship
preparatory to his going to the Embassy at Tokio, and
the late Professor G.P. Jordan who had been in charge of
the University for some time as Pro-Vice Chancellor (a
post now abolished) was on the point of becoming acting
Vice Chancellor. Sir Charles Eliot's actual letter of
resignation