(F 1141/456/10)
18MAR.951
OOL, OFFICE!
My dear Trom,
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
13th March, 1931.
63
You will no doubt have seen a copy of our telegram to
Sir M. Lampson sent to the Colonial Office on March 10th in
Foreign Office letter No. F 1325/3/10 containing instructions
for handing over to Hongkong University in about a month's
£265,000 time the sum of two hundred and sixty five thousand pounds to
which it is entitled by the terms of the China Indemnity Act.
I hope this sum will provide the University with the
financial support, the lack of which has in the past
handicapped its attempts to widen the sphere of its activities,
and so to attract a wider circle of students. I feel
convinced, however, that if the hopes of the framers of the
Bill are to be realised it will have to offer the same
facilities to Chinese students as those at present offered by
the American Universities. In this connexion it will
probably interest you to hear that it has very recently been
Dr. D. Shiels, M.C. M.P.
brought