CO129-512-5 Boxer Indemnity Settlement 21-5-1929 - 21-5-1929 — Page 56

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Government House,

3 ong Kong.

4th June, 1929.

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Dear Wilson,

Please allow me to introduce to you Mr. W. W.

Hornell, C.I.E., Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong University.

He is going on leave to England, in order to make a last

effort to plead the cause of the Hong Kong University for a

liberal share in the Boxer Indemnity.

It is a matter, in my opinion, of great importance

to Anglo-Chinese relations that the Hong Kong University

should be put beyond the reach of the financial troubles,

from which it now suffers chronically, and that it should be

enabled to create within itself a really efficient faculty

of Chinese studies. We cannot hope to raise enough money

for these purposes locally, but I cannot think of any object

to which the Boxer Indemnity funds could more usefully be

devoted.

I hope you will yourself see Mr. Hornell and

hear what he has to say.

Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Wilson,

G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.B.E.,

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

LONDON,

ENGLAND.

Yours sincerely,

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