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4282-150) IVL. 38815-61 10,000 12/39 T.S. 695 (*5444-150) Wt. 45767-68 30,000 2/40 T.S. 695

53611/3/40. Hong Kong.

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Mr.

Mr.

Mr.

Monson 21

Gent 27/4

Sir A. Burns.

Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.

Mr. C. J. Jeffries.

Mr. A. J. Dawe.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Permt. U.S. of

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State.

DRAFT.

THE LORD ELTON.

Hold up

28.9.40

2819

Subject to Sir Geoffry Northcote's

For In Sent

concurrence.

Downing Street,

Dear Lord Elton,

September, 1940.

We have now received a

reply from the Acting Governor of

Hong Kong to the telegram of which

I sent you a copy on the 4th

September.

The Acting Governor has

consulted Dr. Sloss before replying

helist

and the latter concurs in his views.

He expresses the

that a grant

of £1,000 for the purpose suggested

in our telegram would be gratefully

accepted. Of the schemes mentioned

in that telegram he does not conside:

that a Chair of Colonial History

FURTHER ACTION.

In expressing

would be entirely appropriate.

the other hand he thinks that a

studentship for a post-graduate

On

course for men from Chinese

Universities would be very acceptable

and would accord with the

traditional aims of the Hong Kong

University.

is

was of course Aware

to

They view

Of COURSO

expressed in spite of the warning

from

we gave in our telegram that the

Trustees might find a particular

difficulty in approving that form

of