CO129-588-10 Hong Kong University- proposed Commission to discuss future activities following liberation 28-8-1943 - 7-1-1944 — Page 4

The C.A. (M.P.U.) skd. also be given the

to be opportimitz represented

Cultu.

ما

Chairman (a member of the Colonial Office)

Sir William Peel ( an ex Chancellor of

Hong Kong University, who has also had many years experience in Malaya)

Professor Channon.

Mr. Morse (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,

who has been Treasurer of Hong Kong University for sometime and has also been a member of one commission to enquire into that University)

Mr. N.L. Smith (Colonial Secretary, Hong

Kong until just before the Japanese occupation. He has also, in the course of his service, been Director of Education and Secretary for Chinese Affairs.)

Mr. S.W. Jones (Colonial Secretary, Singapore, until just before the Japanese occupation, but also with considerable experience in the F.M.S)

A representative of the Foreign Office

(for this it would be hoped to obtain the services of Sir A. Blackburn, who has had many years experience in China and was interned in Hong Kong at the beginning of the Japanese occupation).

Professor Channon will be leaving for West Africa at the end of the year. As, therefore, the problems of Malaya are at present in the forefront of our picture, the idea would be to get them to produce an interim report on Higher Educational institutions in Malaya, before

Professor Channon leaves; and then to tackle the problem of Hong Kong on the return of the Walter Elliot Commission to London in the Spring.

P.T.O

27. 9. 43.