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Enclosure No. 2.

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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY

WITH REFERENCE TO

THE REPORT OF THE BRITISH ECONOMIC MISSION TO THE

FAR EAST.

If any practical measures are adopted as a consequence of

the Report of the Economic Mission to the Far East, it would seem to be essential that the University of Hong Kong should occupy the

foremost place in any scheme for the realization of the aims which

that report has laid down.

The University already has established close relations with

China in the following ways:-

1. Through its students who have come from the interior and

who now occupy important positions in China.

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By means of its local examinations which are held annually at Shanghai, Canton and Hankow.

By the Association of Hong Kong University Graduates which links together the past students in China.

4. By the scholarships which have been established for students

in Yunnan, Canton, Hankow and Pekin.

5. By the President of China scholarships which also served up

to 1925 to strengthen the bonds between the University and China proper.

A further close link with China now exists by the appoint-

ment of Sir William Hornell, the Vice-Chancellor of the University,

to a seat on the Board which administers the Boxer Indemnity Fund

in China from Nanking.

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It was always the intention the chief aim in fact of the

founders of the University in Hong Kong to strengthen the

culturalties with China through the University. Sir Charles Eliot,

the first Vice-Chancellor, devoted a great deal of his time to the

furtherance of this object which was only interrupted by the

political troubles and chaos of 1925 onward.

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