CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5] — Page 312

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badly needed to meet the University's urgent requirements,

has

had to be diverted to form a set off against money due for bene-

fits actually received by the holders of the Chinese Government

Scholarships.

It is stated in the first paragraph of the attached

memorandum that on the 16th August, 1924, the Wai Chiao Pu wrote

to the University referring to a letter they had received from

the Ministry of Education which stated that steps were then being

taken to raise the sum of $54,700, the amount outstanding on the

31st August, 1924, for the Peking Government Scholarships, and

that as soon as the money had been raised it would be paid to

the University. No payment has ever been received.

Your Lordship will also see from the memorandum that

Sir Edward Stubbs wrote a dispatch with regard to these debts

to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies and that

this dispatch was communicated by the Colonial Office to the

Foreign Office with the result that His Majesty's Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs undertook to put the matter before

the Boxer Indemnity Committee.

Might I venture to remind Your Lordship and the

members of the Deputation that these debts are still outstanding.

I have the honour to be,

Your Lordship's obedient servant,

sd. C. Clementi,

CHANCELLOR, University of Hongkong.