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British Universities in 1926, and that a few lectures

were delivered in British Universities during 1927/1928

by Dr. Sydney Wei, who is now a member of the Ministry

of Education in Nanking. I gather further that the

work of the Committee, for the assistance of which a

grant from the China Indemnity is asked, covers the

following objects, namely, the bringing to England of

eminent Chinese to give lectures in Universities there,

and the caring for the interests of Chinese students

who go to Great Britain. The bringing of eminent

Chinese to lecture in British Universities is a laudable,

but strictly limited, proposal and is not likely to

involve heavy recurrent expenditure, while in connection

with Chinese students who visit Great Britain I would

invite your attention to a correspondence which passed

last year between the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commer

and the Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University.

15. The occasion for this correspondence was the

reference to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce

by the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce of certain proposals

made in Glasgow which are almost identical with the

objects which the British Universities' China Committee

is now attempting to accomplish. The Committee of the

Hong Kong Chamber informed the Glasgow Chamber that it

deprecated the sending of immature Chinese young men and

women to be educated abroad and that it was of opinion

that Chinese students would derive most benefit from

receiving a University education in their own

environment, the best of them afterwards proceeding to Universities abroad for post-graduate study.

They

emphasised the limitations of the Glasgow proposals and

commended to the special attention of the Glasgow

Chamber