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OUTWARD TELEGRAM

TC HONG KONG (Sir A. Granthaa)

FROM S. OF S. COLONIES.

Sent 15th March, 1948. 11.45 hrs.

No. 343 Confidential

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Fong Kong University.

Following are amendinente referred tc in my,

immediately preceding telegram.

1.

First paragraph substitute following for sentences

offer first sentence, Begins.

This

The Committee's recommendations were approved by the Government of Hong Kong and gained the sympathetic interest of His Majesty's Government, War came before, most of the chonges recommended could be initiated. After the liberation or Hong Kong the whole question of the future of the University was considered by a Committee in London, erpointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Comalttee recommended the re-establishment of the University with staff and facilities on a much more extensive coale than hitherto, involving capital expenditure which the Committee tentatively estimated at approximately 21,000,000, and recurrent 'expenditure of 295,600 per anHW, The Committee took the view that 14 the University could not be re-established with the standards which they recommended 8) that it could bear comparison with Universities in the United Kingdom and with Chinese Universities, it would be better not be re-establish it at all, The Committee' TECOMMENĜacion involved substantial financial geeistance from United Kingdom funds, and its further consideration has unfortunately had to be deferred owing to the present conditions in the United kingdom. The Hong Kong Government and the Secretary of State for the Celonies do not, however, ocpadder that it would be right to delay any further a decision on the re-establirment of the University, and it has been decided that steps should be taken now to restore the University, as rapidly as possible, to Ets statns and scope of 1940. Enda.

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In second paragrape last line but twe substitute "is being" for "will be", Telat line but one substituto "United Kingdom" for "England".

For the first four sentences of last paragraph substitute, begins: The purposes for which the University was founded are not forge ten, and, as already indicated, the question of developing it lo the standards recommended by the Committee will be further considered as 800û az practicable. In the meantime the re-sutablishment of the University on its 1940 scale will, in itself, provide an opportunity for, peowth, not necessarily to nubere but ib maturity end in divsvsity of sotivities.

Anda.

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