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provide for the constitution of a committee to which would be temporarily transferred such powers held under Hong Kong legislation by the authorities of the University of Hong Kong no are requisite for the conforment. of degrees. Colonel Stanley old in such an event consider whether it would bea Popriate that Dr. Gordon King should be appointed to this body with the, special responsibility of cavising on the recognition, as far as can properly be shown, of the courses and examinations taken by the students in free China ee equivalent to tho Farble courses of examinations which would normally

have boon taken by the students in Hong Kong. the basis of the advice then tendered by Dr, Gordon King the Comittee would conoilor the grant or degrees to

of such students.

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I on, however, to explain that under the existing statutes of the University no degree in rædicine or aurgery can be conferred on any person whe has completed a five years course of study at a University or other place of learning, including at le two years at the University of Hong Kong, and in vict of this provision it seems desirable to Colonel Stanley that no degree sh old, in the arrangement set out above, be conferred on students who have not spent at least two years at the University of Hong Kong prior to the Joponese occupation of the Colony. As regards any other students who having started their studies at Hong Kong had not completed the reised two years of peoldence there and who may subsequently qu lify in Ivo China, it appears to Colonel Stanley sufficient to promise thet ho will use. his good offices with the University authorities, when it is again possible for ex uintións to be held in Hong Kong, to secure the admission of such students without further study

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