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UNIVERSITY

格物

OF HONGKONG.

ET VIRT

307

25th March, 1926,

SAPIENTIAE

Tel. No. 1956.

Code: A. B. C. 5th Ed.

Rt. Hon. Viscount Willingdon, G.B.E., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., The British Consulate General,

Shanghai.

My Lord,

I now enclose for the information of Your Lordship and

the Boxer Indemnity Deputation twelve copies of a memorandum on

the debts due to this University on account of certain scholars

sent to it by the President of the Chinese Republic and various

Chinese Provincial Governments. Your Lordship will see from the

statement attached to the memorandum that the debt still due to

this University on account of the scholars referred to above

amounts to (H.K.) $106,780.29. Your Lordship and the members

of the Deputation will appreciate the fact that these scholars

have been educated, housed, fed, provided with books, and in some

cases even clothed at the expense of this University.

The authorities of the University have always hoped that

eventually the money would be paid in full and held that it would

not be fair to the scholars concerned to send them away in the

course of their University careers. Some payments have been re-

ceived but the doubtful nature of these outstandings as assets in

the unsettled state of China which has prevailed for some years,

and still prevails, has compelled the University to set aside

every year an amount of money against these claime. Thus, money