CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945 — Page 119

C.O.

REGISTERED No.

DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

LETTER SENT

DATE

Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.

311

34

DRAFT

MRMiss Ruston 53611/7/45

MR.

MR.

ENCLOSURES

Dear Doctor King,

30th July, 1945

Thank you for your letter of the 16th July which has crossed with mine dated 13th July. Thanks also for sending the University Seal which has safely arrived. The people we have asked to serve on the Emergency Committee have all accepted, but, the order-in-Council has not yet issued owing to the difficulties I referred to in my last

By the time it has gone through I

letter. expect your promised letter, sending the photographic sample of the University Diploma and the latest list of students cligible for degrees conferred by the Emergency Committee, will have arrived.

We are asking the Foreign Office to telegraph to the Embassy about Miss Kellie Wee to the effect that we will be responsible for her passage to this country and 10 necessary her foes and maintenance while here. The question of whether part of the cost can to regarded as a loan will be discussed FURTHER ACTION with her when she arrived.

Yours sincerely,

to lek was

To

DOCTOR GORDON KING, F.R.C.5.

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