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FOREIGN OFFICE,S.W.1.

20th November,1939.

Dear Mr. Andrews

With reference to Foreign Office letter

F 8645/3446/10 of the 25th August on the subject of Hong

Kong University, I enclose a copy of a letter we have

received from Boyd Tollington of the British Council

together with a copy of the letter from John Beresford

referred to in the latter's letter.

You will observe that the Council are prepared in

principle to make a grant of £1,000 for scholarships during

the year 1940 1941 subject to His Majesty's Government's

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decision on the question of policy.

We have not heard officially what the views of the

Treasury are but I gather that in present circumstances

there is no longer any question of a financial grant from

His Majesty's Government.

Nevertheless, you may still

wish to go ahead with the scholarships as a separate

N. F. S. Andrews, Esq.

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