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you to give the matter of the ultimate registration of qualification your favourable consideration. An assurance such as this on your part would have a very favourable effect in dealing with the students, many of whom are carrying on under conditions very different from those to which they have been accustomed.
Since my own escape from Hong Kong in the spring of 1942, practically the whole of my time has been devoted to main- taining contact with the students of Hong Kong University. My original records in Hong Kong were all burned by the Japanese, but I have succeeded in making new files containing all the essential particulars of each student who is now in Free China. The Colleges which our students are attending all rank as Grade "A" Colleges under the Chinese Ministry of Education and provide a medical education which, I think, under the existing emergency conditions, may be regarded as equivalent to the training which the student would have received in Hong Kong. I should like to urge the Members of the General Medical Council very strongly to consider favourably this request for recognition and registration of students who are temporarily forced to continue their studies outside of Hong Kong. The need for numbers of medical graduates to take their proper part in the phase of reconstruction that will follow the present struggle will be very great, and it is my hope that the University of Hong Kong will be able to take its share in this. The morale of the students is very high and the students all entertain the most sanguine hopes that their studies may be continued in the University of Hong Kong after the present conflict is over. I might mention that in addition to 140 medical students, 66 students of Engineering, 60 students of Arts and 12 students of Science are also continuing their studies in China.
My own address will be in Chungking for some considerable time to come, as I have accepted an appointment as Visiting Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to the National Medical College of Shanghai and have concurrently become an Honorary ember of the Staff of the Central Hospital of the National Health Administration in Chungking. Kindly address your reply to me c/o British Embassy, Chungking (through the Foreign Office London S.W.1.)
Please convey my best personal greetings to Sir Richard
Needham.
Yours sincerely,
Gordon King, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Hong Kong.
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