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There are, he says, about 500 Chinese students of all types in

England. The Chinese are (he says) anxious for such a Club; at

present they meet in two or three restaurants in London. They would

themselves raise £2,000, and he thinks British firms and others comid

put up another £2,000, leaving only £2,000 for the Committee's funds.

The China Society would I think undertake to organise and run the

scheme.

N.B. Professor Middleton-Smith, Dean of the Engineering Faculty, is

in England (or rather I believe in Scotland) now. He could give

valuable information to the Empire Marketing Board or the Colonial

Development Committee. Letters to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,

Gracechurch Street, would no doubt reach him. See also article by

Professor Forster on "America and China"

China", in the London Quarterly

Review for April, 1931. (I have not myself seen this article).

Lugares

of

29.7.31.

N.B. I am a Life Member of the Court of the University and Member of

its London Consulting Committee. Also Representative on the Uni-

versities' Bureau of the Hong Kong University and Member of the Uni-

versities China Committee.