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FURTHER ACTION.
For some time past the Colonial
Office and the Government of Hong Kong have
been much concerned with the question of the
future policy of the University of Hong Kong.
The University
was founded some 30 years ago as the
which wa
result of a scheme sponsored by Lord Lugard, under which it was intended that the t
University should serve not only, or indeed
primarily, the local needs of the Colony, but that it should provide an important Anglo-
Chinese cultural link.
Unfortunately, this fundamental
purpose was largely frustrated at the start by
the outbreak of the successful republican
revolution in China, and the flood of ultra-
nationalist feeling which, in one form or
another, has swept along the successive
regimes in South China ever since.
On the other hand, the present dire
need of China for higher education facilities
for its doctors, engineers, and future
generation of statesmen, coupled with the havoc and disturbance caused to the many previously
flourishing Universities in China by the
Japanese invasion, has presented an opportunity
for considering the restoration of the
original and essential functions of Hong Kong
University. Not only had the University authorities secured from Chiang Kai Shek, and
other