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Chinese Students in Great Britain

Edinburgh; M. T. Z. Tyau, an LL.B. of London, the well- known editor and publicist; M. Thomas Tchou, the expert on Labour who studied in Glasgow; Cheng Fat-ting and Hsia Ching-lin, the Shanghai lawyers, educated in London and Edinburgh respectively; Song Ong-siang, and the late Yeoh Guan-seok, both Cambridge graduates and Queen's Scholars, who became legislators in the Straits Settlements; while there might be added another long list of distinguished research students who come for a year or so-viz., T. Z. Koo, the National Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. of China, and a leader of Chinese thought, who recently spent a year in Oxford, and Francis C. M. Wei, President of Boone University. And there are a thousand other names working less spectacularly beyond the public gaze in work in which they apply the British ideals they have learnt over here. They, too, deserve our attention, and, I venture to hope, our interest as well.

And now, I feel I have given to you, very inadequately, a cursory review of our little group of students—a review which I hope has left you with some impressions and some idea of the existence of this group. If there are further points, for this is not a full account, of which you wish discussion, and with the permission of the Chairman, I shall feel privileged to try to discuss them with you. Whatever idea I leave with you, may I leave this final impression, that I and all Chinese students thank you all very warmly indeed for your interest in us.