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must be built up slowly. A sum of £200,000 would enable

the University to attempt to realise Chinese faculty; but

financial difficulties of its other faculties and of the

University as a whole would meanwhile be becoming more

acute and discontent of the staff more serious. The success of the Chinese faculty would be seriously prejudiced by

these conditions. If an allotment of even £500,000 could

be secured to the University the faculty of Chinese could

be started and something done for improving general

efficiency of the University. I do not understand reference

to Anglo-Chinese Studies in London, but I would stress the

difficulty of teaching Chinese effectively out of China and

would urge that an essential feature of any scheme for

al improvement of cultural relations between China and Britain

should be a system of post-graduate scholarships tenable

in Great Britain by Chinese graduates of Hong Kong University

Hong Kong University could send six graduates annually to Britain for two years special study if an additional con- tribution of £100,000 earmarked for Scholarships were made.