CO129-507-1 Proposal to dispose of Boxer Indemnity funds- claim by Hong Kong university 21-12-1927 - 24-7-1928 — Page 90

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In any case I do most earnestly hope that, now the Willingdon schepe is clearly impossible, that the funds already recovered should be used in whole or part for Hong Kong University and perhaps also for the

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construction of the loop line railway linking Canton with Hong Kong. Hong Kong University is the one

way in which we can really do something which would

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both benefit the whole of China and enhance British

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prestige, and personally I should not hesitate to give the whole sua to it in order to endow it worthily and

make it a great centre both of Chinese studies and of

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progressive education for Chinese citizens.

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railway project is of course also of great importance

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to Hong Kong and Anglo Chinese relations.

In this whole Chinese b siness it seems to me

that there is only one bit of solid ground, and that

is our position in Long Kong.

Anything we can do to

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credit and advantage

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