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I had a talk yesterday with Professor
Forster, Education Department of the University
of Hong Kong, who has recently returned from an
educational tour in Germany, and is on his way
back to Hong Kong via the United States.
He
told me that he met in Berlin a German, who was a
Lecturer in the University, who told him that he
would be going out before long as Professor of
Geography to a University in Canton. Apparently
a German Professor Stranger has been recently in
Japan for a year, and Mr. Forster got the impression
that as a result of that visit there was a good
deal of recruitment to professorial posts in
Chinese Universities under Japanese influence
going on in Germany at present.
This, of course, is all hearsay evidence,
but you may like to see it.
He told me also what perhaps you know,
that the students and staff of Lingnan University,
Canton, are at present using the Hong Kong Univer-
sity buildings when not required by the Hong Kong
University.
He told me also that the Daily Telegraph
in July or August this year had published a China Supplement, and that this supplement contained an
article by Mr. A. C. Moreing, M.P. advocating
financial support from home for the University of
Hong Kong,
I did not, of course, refer in my talk
with Mr. Forster to the talk that we had yesterday