CO129-588-9 Hong Kong University- relief work 11-8-1942 - 19-11-1943 — Page 30

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The amount required is £4,000, but the Ambassador thinks that a contribution only, if anything at all, should be paid from the Hongkong University funds. support of the request, it is suggested that it would be advantageous to concentrate in one Centre, where tuition in English can be given, some 50 students now scattered over a number of medical schools in Free China, especially for those students (number not stated) who are at Chungshan University where Mandarin and German are used, and at Kwailin Medical College, where.German, Japanese and Mandarin are used for instruction.

? Reply to (71) that, for the reasons suggested by the Ambassador, we do not feel justified in making a further grant to Lingnan University at present, but that the request will be transmitted to the representative body of the University now being constituted.

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£1,000 was granted to Lingnan University towards the cost of providing accommodation for Hongkong students, but ir. Sedgwick at Para.III(iv) of his Memorandum of the 31st May, 1943, states that 15 fourth-year students attached to Lingnan University are studying at the Methodist Mission at Kukong, at which Centre the new Medical Faculty of Lingnan University is proposed to be established. That University has, however, not been able to provide then with a dormitory or lecture accommodation. Lingnan appealed to the Ambassador for CN.3.100,000 (£853 approximately at present rates of exchange) for this purpose, but Mr. Sedgwick did not feel able to support the recommendation, as these 15 - students will soon qualify and presumably disperse. It is not

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