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Chamber of Commerce the Vice-Chancellor's remarks on

the desirability of the establishment (or development)

of a British Institution in China, for the study of

China and all things Chinese, referring in this

connection to what France and the United States were

doing in this respect and urging that Great Britain ought also to take the question into serious

consideration.

This comparative study of China and

of all things Chinese is what the University of

Hong Kong should be doing and what it would be doing,

if it had the means. The correspondence to which I

have just referred was printed at length in the

Annual Report of the Hong Kong General Chamber of

Commerce for 1928. I enclose a reprint of this

correspondence which was prepared by the Chamber and is entitled "Hong Kong University as an Imperial

Asset".

16. As to the work of the Committee in caring

for Chinese students in Great Britain, it is not

perhaps realized that a very large majority of those

Chinese young men and women who leave China for a

part or the whole of their education go to the

United States. Almost all the Universities in

China, with the exception of the Hong Kong University

are American, and out of the share of the Chinese

Indemnity which fell to the Government of the United

States, many scholarships tenable in America have

been created. These scholarships not only enable many young men and women to go to American Universities;

they also enable many young Chinese men to go for technical training either to technical institutes

or to factories in America. These men

invariably