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shown remarkable powers of resistance and endurance,
and it is a great satisfaction to record that the
Hong Kong University has so far passed unscathed
through a period marked by violent agitation among Chinese students elsewhere. This University can
assuredly do much for the youth of China, and the whole attitude of the University's students during the last eighteen months has been a striking testimony
to their appreciation of this fact. The Vice-Chancellor
and one of the Chinese Lecturers have just paid a visit
to the Straits Settlements and the Federated Halay
States and, though they made no public appeal they
received spontaneous contributions amounting to $40,000
from the Chinese there resident for the University's
proposed Chinese Faculty. The Deputation admits (see Page 83 of the Report) that its instructions were to allocate the Indemnity money for education and other purposes, but to keep education chiefly in view. I maintain, without any fear of serious contradiction, that the Hong Kong University is at the moment the only
institution in China for the education of the Chinese
on which the Indemnity money could be spent safely,
advantageously and at once.
15.
I venture, therefore, to suggest to His Majesty's Government that in the very difficult position
which has arisen, the best course would be to make
over to the Hong Kong University the total capital sum for which it has asked, namely £1,404,000.
By the
end of this year there will be lying in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to the credit of the Indemnity Fund a
sun which, according to the table printed on Page 7
in the Deputation's Report, will amount to £1,686,938.7.1H
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