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CHINA REPORT
Organization of the Secretariat of the Universities' China Committee, including Secretary's salary (£1,000), rent of office, clerical assistance, etc. (£550) Grant to the Secretariat of the Universities' China Committee for administrative, travelling and mis- cellaneous expenses, including occasional extra- ordinary expenditure on behalf of the corresponding sub-committee in China
Salaries and ordinary expenses of the sub-committee
in China
Balance for unforeseen expenditure
Total
£1,550
£500
£500
£350
£9,000
Little need be said in elucidation of the above statement, as each item of proposed expenditure has been fully discussed in the relative sub-sections.
It should be emphasised that the suggested division of the Lecture- ships and Fellowships between British and Chinese candidates should not be regarded as invariable, and that it would be within the discretion of the Committee to increase or diminish the number of Chinese or British beneficiaries as the case might be.
We also desire to invite the special attention of the Committee to the possibility of an active interest being taken in some of the pro- posals contained in this Report by Canada, Hong Kong, and perhaps by other parts of His Majesty's dominions. We repeat our recom- mendation that their participation in our plans should be welcomed, and we hope that steps will be taken, when suitable opportunity occurs, to invite their co-operation.
We are satisfied that if our recommendations are carried out, the Universities' China Committee will be making provision, in as ample a manner as circumstances permit, for the carrying out of all the purposes for which the sum of £200,000 was entrusted to it under the Act of Parliament of 1931, and will be making a valuable contribu- tion towards the promotion of intellectual co-operation and improved cultural relations between Great Britain and China.
Finally, we should like to emphasise the fact that in making definite recommendations regarding the allocation of funds, we have done so only in order that we may make our proposals as clear and concrete as possible; and we hope that by so doing we shall have facilitated the work of the Committee.
V.
CONCLUSION.
The members of the delegation are deeply indebted to so many of their Chinese and foreign friends in China for the sympathetic interest taken in their work, for valuable help and advice, and for much generous hospitality, that it is hardly possible to give the names of all those to whom thanks are due. They desire, however, to express their special obligations to the following:-Mr. Chu Chia-hua and other Chinese members of the Board of Trustees of the Indemnity Fund; Messrs. N. S. Brown, Calder-Marshall, and W. H. Donald, three of the British members of the Board of Trustees; Mr. Sydney Wei, formerly of the Chinese Ministry of Education; Dr. Liu and other members of the staff of Shanghai University; Dr. Chiang Monlin, of Peking National University; Dr. Chang Po-ling, of Nankai University; Mr. Tai Chi-tao, late head of the Examination Yuan at Nanking; Dr. Wellington Koo; Mr. T. L. Yuan, Acting Director of the National Library, Peiping; Dr. L. K. Tao, Director of the Institute of Social Science; Sir William Hornell, C.I.E., Vice- Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, and many of his colleagues; Mr. J. O'Gorman Anderson, Acting Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, Kowloon; Mr. J. M. H. Osborne, Commissioner of Customs at Nanking; J. F. Brenan, C.M.G., His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai; Mr. G. E. Hubbard, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai; Mr. Hsing-Lo Hsu and other members of the British Returned Students' Association at Shanghai; Dr. J. M. Henry and other members of the staff of Lingnan University, Canton; Mr. R. A. Hall, of His Majesty's Consular Service in China; Sir Frederick Maze, K.B.E., Inspector-General of Customs, Shanghai; Dr. J. Leighton Stuart and many members of the staff of Yenching University, Peiping; Dr. King Chu, formerly Vice-Minister of Education, now President of Checloo University; Dr. Llewellyn J. Davies, Vice-President of Cheeloo; and Dr. Y. G. Chen, President of the University of Nanking.
We have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servants,
A. D. Lindsay, Esq., C.B.E.,
Master of Balliol,
REGINALD F. JOHNSTON
(Chairman),
W. G. S. ADAMS.
PERCY M. ROXBY.
Chairman of the Universities' China Committee,
Balliol College,
Oxford.
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