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 94

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You will notice that all of the 12 students of the 5th year who were mentioned in my original list have now completed the requirements. Three of them are now either in England (Hui Kwan Lun) or on their way to England (Cheung King Ho and Yap Jin Yau) to do Post Graduate work under the auspices of the British Council.

Of the students originally listed as 4th year, only

Of the others, one 5 have completed the requirements.

Two others (Edmund Mah-Hing) died of Tuberculosis this year. (Woo King Tak and Khoo Ping Ying) are down with Tuberculosis and resting for the present. One has given up (Oh Bak Chua) and the others have not yet completed their clinical work for one reason or another. This includes the unfortunate group of 8 students at Lingnam University who were about to sit for their final examination when Lingnam was evacuated

Lingnam has not owing to the Japanese occupation of Kukong. yet been able to reorganise itself, and the earliest hope I can see of being able to give these boys a degree is to reassemble them in Hong Kong some time during the next twelve months and give them their final examination there.

Three of the 3rd year students have managed to fulfill the requirements. Others such as Miss Elizabeth Wann and the students at Hsiang Ya and Cheeloo would qualify by June of next year. But for these and other more junior students there would seem to be every hope that facilities may be offered in Hong Kong for the completion of their course.

You might be interested to know that last Sunday evening I met the whole of the Hong Kong student group at Shanghai Medical College, and asked them tentatively where

There were they would like to finish their medical course.

20 present who have a year or more to go, and after I had passed round a form for signature there were twenty names showing their preference to return to Hong Kong to complete their Medical Studies (about 12 of these were Malayan Chinese one was from Shanghai). and the rest were Hong Kong Chinese This is an indication of a very general feeling, and provides the greatest encouragement, in my estimation, for the early restoration of the University. With the good news of the last few days there is every hope that the Vice Chancellor, Mr. D. J. Sloss, and other members of the University Faculty will

Soon