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China both from the cultural and

economic aspect. The intervening years,

however, have been marked not only by

unrest and diamion by the growth of

a nationalist spirit under the republican

hot newly

régime in China and y, a continuous era régime in China and by ɛ

of unrest and disunion, events which have

seriously hampered the University in its

object of attracting students from China

in adequate numbers and obtaining the necessary

financial and other support from Chinese

sources. It is generally agreed that

if it were an institution designed for the

needs of the Colony of Hong Kong alone

the Clucrunity

be

i would not have been started or maintained

on the lines of its present extent.

Apart

frem

$

from the income and fees amounting to De. 200,000

a year the University has become dependent

to an increasing extent on an annual grant

from