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needs of students from China and so to

serve in an important degree British

relations with that country.

The Governor

of Hong Kong is himself impressed by the

advantages to be obtained of pursuing the

policy thus recommended and he reports

that immerf

is being undertaker locally

even further examination of particular

aspects of the

mothers

comiuc ted locally.

aro being

at in the Committer

Committees mio

4. But in the meantime Sir Geoffry

Northcote seeks the Secretary of State's

agreement in principle with the arguments

of the Committee and the conclusions

recorded in the report, and he explains

that the University authorities will be

fortified by an expression of the Secretary

of State's sympathy and concurrence with

those views and aims.

Mr.MacDonald for

his part warmly welcomes the prospect

of

muudations