CO129-593-4 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 27-10-1946 - 30-1-1947 — Page 47

This Committee, of which the Vice Chancellor was a

mber, after a detailed examination of the issues

bmitted a confidential report. The report is at

'esent under consideration in the Golonial Office

d the foreign Office.

Pending decisions on the questions considered by the bmmittee, the Governor of Hong Kong, with the approval

P the Colonial Office and the Vice Chancellor, established

1 Hong Kong last September a Committee known as the

niversity Interim Committee, authorised to make the

acilities of the University available for the purposes

f higher education. I enclose a coy of the official

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Lea

Houg Gong

nnouncement that was made at the time this Interim

ommittee was set un.

Courses in the subjects named in

his announcement are now being given, and I might add

hat the Vice Chancellor is himself en-route to Hong

ong, and that the majority of those members of the taff who have not retired are already working in the

olony.

You will gather from the above that Colonel Stenley's respondent does not seem to here very recent informatie

the

Forma Col. Stanley's comespondit, A the subject of the University can assured

mportance

the

Muris ty

that its

particularly ito-importance in connection

ith our relations with the Chinese

J is very fully

ppreciated both here and in Hong Kong.

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