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and Colleges.

There is scarcely need to add that the work of University Relief has been highly appreciated by the students. The files are full of letters which express in ever varying form the gratitude of these young people for the tangible aid which has been made possible through the kind interest of is Excellency the British Ambassador to China as well as for the many other forms of assistance

nich have been rendered by the numerous friends of the "niversity in different parts of Free China. The morale of the students themselves remains good. The circumstances under which they are living are very different from those to which they have been accustomed, but with very few exceptions, they have adjusted themselves rapidly and cheerfully to the new conditions. The student body includes both men and women; the men predominate, but about one-sixth of the students are women (as compared to one-fifth in Hong Kong). In the larger centres (at Chung Shan University, siang Ya Medical College, Central University and the Shanghai Medical College) branches of the dong Kong University Alumni Association have already been started and these have done a good deal to preserve the spirit and traditions of the Alma Mater, to which there is a deep loyalty on the part of all the students.

Pinally, I should like, on behalf of the University, to voice a very sincere expression of thanks to all who have made this work possible. They trying period through which the University has passed only served to show how many friends the institution possesses. To mention all of these friends by name Could be impossible, but without their sympathy and good-will

the work which has been accomplished could not have been carried out. It is the hope of all those connected with Hong Kong University that future events will more than serve to justify the interest which has been taken in it by so many sections of the community.

Garden King

Gordon King,

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

21st October 1942.