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Universities China Committee to consider most carefully

whether any good purpose would be served in spending

money on sending distinguished scholars to lecture at

Universities in China. I am informed that at present

none of the Universities in Shanghai are functioning at

all. The American Missionary University in Nanking

is probably struggling to carry on its work, but the

Government University is, or was, closed down, and

when it reopens the Government will probably have no

funds for the teachers' salaries. In many places in

China, schools, as well as University colleges, are

closed. Whatever may be the outcome of the present

Shanghai imbroglio, there is likely to be a

recrudescence of the students' political activities

throughout the country generally.

4. On the subject of sending graduates to

England, the following facts will be of interest.

Recently the Metropolitan-Vickers China Export Company have offered what they call a "college" apprenticeship,

tenable in Manchester, to one of the engineering

graduates of the Hong Kong University, who comes from

Amoy. The apprenticeship is offered on terms which

should enable the apprentice to be self-supporting. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire are generously arranging with Messrs. Holts for a free passage to Liverpool.

Mr. Stanley Dodwell, of Messrs. Dodwell & Company, has

kindly secured for another of the graduates an

apprenticeship on the same self-supporting terms, with

Messrs. Norris, Henty & Gardeners, Limited, oil engine

makers, of Patricoft, Lancashire.

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