CO129-588-9 Hong Kong University- relief work 11-8-1942 - 19-11-1943 — Page 13

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There are a number of matters outstanding on this file.

To take them in order, there is first Mr. Morse's letter at 38. I have rung up the Foreign Office (Mr. Bromley), and told him that Mr. Morse has agreed to release £3,000 for the three Colleges mentioned in our letter at 33, but that he is very doubtful about meeting the rest of the Ambassador's suggestions. I attach a draft reply to Mr. Morse.

39. This follows up correspondence which the Foreign Office have been carrying on at the request of the Ambassador with the General Medical Council. The story starts with 11 on this file, which contains a letter addressed by Dr. Gordon King, former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Hong Kong University, to the Secretary of the G.M.C. on behalf of the students who either had war-time Degrees of Medicine conferred on them by the Hong Kong University authorities before they were separated or are pursuing their studies at various Medical Schools in Free China. At these schools they are being given credit for the progress they had already made in Hong Kong, and will eventually take the Finals Degrees of the different Chinese Colleges concerned.

Certain of the students are anxious,

however, that their degrees should be recognised by the G.M.C. in order that they may have the opportunity of practicing in British territory when they have completed their studies, and for this reason Dr. Gordon King has aksed whether the G. M. C. would consider favourably this request for recognising the registration of students who have been temporarily forced to continue their studies outside Hong Kong. The G.M. C. are considering the matter at a meeting in May, but have requested information whether there is any entity still surviving which can legally or constructively be regarded as the University so that the authorities of that entity can recognise the courses of study in Free China as equivalent to the comparable courses for examinations normally gone through by students in Hong Kong and grant degrees purporting to be degrees of the University of Hong Kong to students who have qualified in these

examinations.