c/o British Embassy, Chungking,
CHINA.
Miss A. M. Ruston, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.1.
16th July, 1945.
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Dear Miss Ruston,
I meant to have written to you much earlier than this, but since my return to Chungking in April I have been submerged with clinical work which had been piling up during my absence, and there are many things connected with the University of Hong Kong which I have literally not had time to cope with yet.
I am writing now with regard to the University Seal which I promised to send to you at the first opportunity. Sir Horace Seymour is leaving for England and very kindly promised to convey the Seal to you. I have accordingly packed up the two dies (which will need mounting before they can be used) and they should reach you very shortly. I trust that you receive them safely.
I succeeded last week in finding a former graduate with a full size photograph of his diploma. I am now having it photographed and will send you copies as soon as I have them so that the form of the diploma can be reproduced in England. Graduation Examinations are now practically com- pleted in the Colleges here, and I hope very soon to be able to let you have an up-to-date list of students who will be eligibl to have their names presented to the "Emergency Committee for the Conferment of Medical Degrees of the University of Hong Kon I also hope very shortly to get out another report on the present status of the Hong Kong University Relief Work. The work was further complicated during my absence by the wholesale evacuation of several of the Universities and Colleges in the South during the Japanese drive on Kweiyang. The result is now that many of the students are in Free China on the other side of the Japanese line, and that we have post touch entirely with a number of them.
Mr. S. K. Tan, who is coming to England for teacher training, is expecting to leave here in a few days. I
Bache will give him letters of introduction to Mr. Sedgwick and to
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