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is

This already difficult situation will

not be eased by the fact that it is likely

that the Colonial Office will shortly be

promoting a University for the Far Eastern

or

dependencies in Malaya and Singapore.

A

not inconsiderable proportion of the students

of Hongkong University in the pre-war days

were Chinese from British territories outside

Hongkong. This flow of students is likely

to be attracted in future to a well nourished

University which will be especially intended

for their benefit.

They must therefore

grawn here be largely lost to Hongkong, unless a counter

attraction is provided ign intellectual

standards and by a system of Scholarships and

neither of a

Is Studentships/which locally supported University

likely to be able to afford.

On the other hand, it has been made quite clear to the Committee that any degredati

tion

of status of Hongkong University would not

only be resented by the local inhabitants,

but would undoubtedly be the cause of a

serioús loss of prestige to the British

Commonwealth not only in its Far Eastern

dependencies but in China and other

associated countries as well. The latter

effect is especially likely and will be of

greater weight because the future relations

of Hongkong, the Commonw alth and China are

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