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to in the Order in Council should be set up in

this country and in that connection Dr. Gordon King (me bean of

had submitted signed statements in respect of all

whom he considered

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candidates/eligible under the terme already referred to for

these 'emergency degrees": You may care to have copies

of the statements submitted by Dr. King in respect of

Dr. Yap Jin Yau and Dr. Cheung King Ho.

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It has since been decided that, in order to meet any

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to be established in Hong Kong, and Accordingly a telegram

has been sent to the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong,

suggesting this course and proposing the names of five

for the Commidige

suitable persons of which one is Dr. King himself.

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work of the Committee will be, I think, purely formal and

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I hope that the authorities of the Medical School & put forward is the forei the hood statemer 15 enclosed

Two which it is proposed these two doctors should attend,

will be prepared to accept them on this assurance that they are

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both in the first list of candidates who will come before the

Chief Civil Appan's Officer of the The litary Administration in

Committee in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong was asked by telegram on the 18th October to

arrange, if he agreed, for the proposed Committee to be

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established and I have no doubt that we shall hear before long

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that degrees have duly been conferred. I am reluctant to press them unduly in the matter since the Administration is very

seriously under staffed and over worked, bid is in

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in this matter please let me know. In the meantime perhaps

Drs. Yap and Cheung would care to get in touch with our Welfare Department (Kengird House, Pall Mall East) who are particularly concerned with Colonial students in this country,

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