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CONGREGATION DAY AT UNIVERSITY.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR CONFERS DEGREES ON GRADUATES.

DISTINGUISHED CHINESE OFFICIAL HONOURED.

There was a largo and 'representative, gathering of lending residents of the Colony at the University yesterday, the occasion being the congregation for the conferring of degrees."

Among those on whom degrees were conferred by the Chan-. cellor of the University, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G.,,, K.B.E., was the Hon. Foo Ping Sheung, H.Sc.(Eng) who was presented with the Degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

Sir William Hornell, in referring to the Hon. Foo Ping Sheung, stated that he was the first graduate of the Hong Kong Univer- sity, to receive that distinction. He referred to Mr. Foo's brilliant-

· ezrear and expressed the hope that the honour conferred on him would encourage others to follow in his footsteps.

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VICE-CHANCELLOR ON THE NEW CHINA.

THE PROCESSION.

The order of the procession into zhe Great Hall was as follows:--

H.E. the Governor, The mace-bearer,›

.

The Hon. Foo Ping Sheung and

the Vice-Chancellor.

The Hon. Treasurer and the Dean,

Faculty of Medicine. The Dean, Faculty of Engineer. ing and the Dean, Faculty of

Arte.

The acting Registrar and the Rt.

Rev. thn Bishop of Victoria. "The Rt. Rev. Bishop Henry Val- toria and the Hon. Bfr. Justive J.. R. Wood. The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax and the Hon, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, "The Hon. Mr. O. Mel. Messer and

the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy. The Hon. A. E. Wood and the

Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow.

The Hon. Mr. WE L. Shenton and the Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes.

The Hon. Mr. E, I). C. Wolfe and the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. (retired).

The Hon. Mr. A. K. Wellington and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kote- The Mr. C. Gordon Mackie and

wall.

the Hon. Mr. S. W. T'so.

Sir Robert Ho Tung and the Hon.

Mr. J. J. Paterson.

Mr. Ho Kam Tong and Dr. R.

Clibson

Mr. Eu Tong Sen and Mr.

Kon Sang.

Mr. Tang Chi Ngong and

Fung Ping Shan.

Mr. Kwok Siu Lau and Prof.

A. Middleton Smith,

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S

SPEECH,

Sir William Hornell, addressing the gathering, said:-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1931.

year he became a member of the Legislative Yuan of the Nationalist Government and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; also. Chairman of the Civil Codification Commission. This Commission has now published an English trans Republic of China Books I, II. and Intion of the Civil Codes of the III, and Mr. Foo has contributed an

Distinguished Visitors. The year has not been without its distinguished visitors to the Univer Bity. Professor G. Elliot-Smith, Sir John Bland-Sutton, and His Royal Highneas Prince Purachatra of Sina. The cording of such visitors and the pleasure which they appear to feel at being with us is a great encouragement. I am delighted to sce among the audience Dr. Gordon introduction to this volume. In Thompson of the Henry Loster Re-1929 Mr. Foo was appointed Chinese search Institute, Shanghai. We are Minister to Belgium, an appoint- glad to hear that the foundations ment which he did not take up.. of the Institute buildings are now in the ground. We hope that the Instituto will always work in the closest and friendliest co-operation with this University's Medical School, from which incidentally it recruited both its Principal and its

Professor of Medicine.

Looking back upon 1930 and pass. ing in reflection beyond it to zvan the University's harassed history, thero come into my mind the pro-

verbial words of Juvenal-

"Haud facile emergunt quorum

virtutibus, obstat

Res angusta domi.” which raight bo rendered in the ver nacular

it is not easy for an institu- tion or an individuni whose hudget is an incessant anxiety to live up to true forma,"

Unique Platinotion.

BANDITS' LAIR RAIDED.

NINETEEN OUTLAWS ROUNDED UP.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,}

CANTON, Jan. 19. - Thanks to the smart work of the Mr. Ping Sheung Foo, it will be | Canton detective force, another & great pleasure to me to call upon bandita' lair in the outlying districts. His Excellency the Chancellor to confer upon you honoris causa, this was raided last Saturday morning, niversity's degree of Doctor of when all the bandits in the lair, 19 Laws. You are the first graduate

distinction. According to the testito Canton for trial and punishment. of this University to receive this in number, were caught and brought

many of all, you have, through a tion, filled honourably many respon quantities of aramunitions were also Over a dozen rifles and large period of great stress and tempta sible posts of State. I hope that acized. the honour which this University

The chief of the gang, Leung Loy, is now about to confer upon you will be an encouragement to others and his most trusted gunman, Ah to follow in your footsteps. We Chen, Jong notorious for their hope and believe that you retain bloody deeds, were included in the and will ever keep with you a grateful memory of what we tried number rounded up. The chief and to do for you here. It is on young his principal, subordinate” were un China depends. Hong Kong is p men like you that the future of usually alert, and they tried to British Colony but the destinies of escape in a sampan on the approach China and Hong Kong are inex of the detectives and soldiers, dis- "Nothing splendid has ever tricably interwoven, one with an- been achived except by those other. I don't expect you to be using themselves as farmers, but who dared believe that something blind to our shortcomings, but I do the gunboats patrolling the river inside of them is superior to cirbelieve ibat in your heart of hearte while the raid was in progress

you know that though we Britishers are not demonstrative China has no painted their guns at them, and the truer friends.

sampan surrendered.

But I remember that another author, not so distinguished as Juvenal, recently wrote that:

cumstance."

Anyway the year 1930 has seen what I take to be the determina- tion of the Government of Hong Kong that this University must be

maintained at all costs.

Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, When Your Excelloney came here on the. 22nd September last to unveil the portrait of Bir Creil Clementi and to open the now. Biological Building, I took the opportunity, on behalf of all the lives of the University, to bid you and Lady Peel welcome. In the name of this Congregation 1 The increase in August last of the now welcome you to this the Grst University's annual grant saved the degree-giving coremony orer which Institution from & condition of you are presiding. I said on the serious financial embarrassment. 22nd September, that youad We are deeply grateful to Your already proved a substantial Line-Excellency for the business-like and factor to the University and that prompt way in which on your ar nil of us who had had the good rival you set yourself to deal with fortune to come into contact with the University's inevitable difficul. you and your wife had already ties. I take this opportunity, on learned to hold both Your Excel behalf of all my colleagues and my- leney and Lady Peel dear. I re-self, to tender to Your Excellency who what I then said and once and to our Counsellore our profound more, Assure Your Excellency of gratitude.

loyalty towards you and our confidence in your judgment, your wisdom and your fairness. We look guide us to Your Excellency to restrain and We also look to you, to see that the University get our Chancellor and our Governor, fair field for the discharge of ita manifold responsibilities and its development. And we know that we

shall not look to you in vain. presided over this. Congregation

A year ago Sir Cecil Clementi now he is gone. Sir Cecil Clementi M.was not a man whom one could easily forget. Those who knew him Makwell, I think, carry about with them throughout their lives some in- fluence of the radiancy of the mag- Mr.netic personality and charm. Those who never knew him will perhapa, C. as they came into this Hall and look up at his portrait, wish that they had known him."

I do wish that all the portraits of our Chancellors were hanging on the walls of this Hall. I am I did I should expect to be pelted not going to beg this afternoon. If from this platform. But I am going proud to have been Lord Lugard's to remind the wealthier, who are

without even a portrait of its founder.

Prof. K. H. Digby and Prof. G. T.

Byrne,

Prol. R. K. M. Simpson and Prof.

M. H. Roffey. Prof. J. Shellshear and Mr.

H. B. L. Dowbiggin.

Prof. L. Forster and Prof. W

Faid.

Boxer Fund.,

London Teachers Association that

In 2024 Mr. Baldwin told the

hands of the Canton Police, direct- The chief of the gang, now in the "the idea of particular exceptional people pursuing learning had beened the piracy of the junk Sun familiar to the whole world for Chong on the Canton-Shedaki run scores of centuries but that the iden of preparing whole classes or com-

some months ago, resulting in the munities for co-operation and com- drowning of over. 200 passengers. mon action by a training in common ideas was a comparatively new formation exacted from

The rajd was the result of in- one." This is the gigantic task to

& bandit which you and I, and indeed all of recently captured. An expedition as, now stand committed. We are consisting of 43 detectives, a num- in days, in which the, powers that used to be inherent in birth and her of marines and four gunboata, privilego aro passing rapidly away. guided by the captured bandit, was We live, moreover, an age when at once sent out in search of the the maintenance of that level of civilization to which the world has place, which was located at an un- already succeeded in attaining, can frequented spot overlooking the only be maintained and spread by West River. the education of the peoplo. And China but throughout the world- COLD WAVE AT CANTON. it has never been more urgent than it is at the moment-not only in

the passion that may be stimulated by mob psychology. to wage the war of reason against

and that this is a task in which your University claims the privilega of being allowed to help.

Prof. R. E. Tottenham and Priends, that this Univeroiay is still a fair chance, contribute something that he also would like to strike a

W. I. Gorward.

Mr. T.. H. R. Shaw and Mr. G.

P. do Martin.

Mr. Ho Kwong and Mr. M. P.

Talati.

Mr. W. E Bell and Mr. A.

Cameron.

Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mr. Chau

Yue Ting Mr. Li Yik Mui and Mr. Li Yau

Taun

Mr. J. H. Seth and Mr. Le Chung

Кис.

Mr. Wong Kuning Tin and Mr.

Wong Kam Fuk. Mr. Sun Pak Ming and Mr. D. J.

Lowis.

Mr. P..S. Cassidy and Mr. Wong

Tak Kwong.

Mrs. J. Ring and Mrs. W. Faid. Dr. Lai Chi Hsi and Dr. G. A.

Herklota.

Major A. N. Macfadyen and Dr.

Au Tai Tin.

Mr. A. H. Fenwick and Mr. D. W.

Morley.

.

Mr. A. Braine-Hartnell and

Mr. B. G. Birchi. Mr. D. F. Davies and Mr. B. A.

Hill.

Mr. M. A. Cooper and Mr. C. E.

R. Clarabot.

The Rev. C. B. Shane and Dr.

Wan Sul. :. The. Rev. Fr. D. MacDonald and

Miss W. I. Griffin.. Dr. E. P. Minett and Mr. A.

Morrise.

Mr. G. W. Reeve and Dr. G. H.

Thomas.

·Major LM. Rowlette and Mr. T.

A. Martin. Dr. A. V. Greaves and Dr. B.

S. Begbie. Mrs L Forster and Mrs. E. P.

Minott

to the building up of the China of the future.

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BORDER MOUNTAINS

"SNOWCLAD.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

CARTON, Jan. 12. Canton is experiencing a period of intense cold, the thermometer registering around 38 degrees.

affecting the poorer classes, and the The intense cold is also seriously

ricksha pullers are also being hard

bit.

tung indicate that the cold snap i

Reports from northern Kwang-

even worse there, and snow falling on the mostitains bordering

WANCHAI SHOOTING

AFFAIR.

-MRS. XAVIER · AGAIN

REMANDED.

The year 1930 also saw the de eision of His Majesty's Government a decision graciously accepted by the Government of the Republic of receive a contribution from the China-that the University should Boxer Indemnity Fund. The contri. bution represents a solid aum which, if wisely used is going to help us in placing the University on a already received a good many sugyou get back to Nanking that we sounder financial basis. I havo Will you tell, your colleagues when gestions as to bow the money should are watching with sympathy not be spent. Personally, I hope that untinged with anxiety their efforts the capital will not be touched. If to weld together the Chinese nation we invest the whole £235,000 in may hope to get an additional in- trustee securities in England we come for the University of £10,600 a year, that is to say even if the money can not be, invested at a

GOVERNOR'S SPEECH. rate of interest higher than 4 per gathering, explained that he had H.E. the Governor, addressing the cent. I will not attempt to convert not intended to speak, but as Sir this aum into Hong Kong dollars. William Hornell had begun his But the question of additional in- speech with distinct personal re come apart, the contribution is Majesty's Government and that of of him not to thank Sir William for testimony to the belief of His marks, he felt it would be churlish the Government of the Chinese Re- the kind welcome accorded. He Kong can, and will, if it be given for his remarks. public that the University of Hong thanked Sir William Hornell ein-

Sir William Peel went on to say Hunan. personal note and took the opportu Late Prof. Wang.

nity to congratulate Sir Willia Hon. Too Ping Sheung. Professor C. Y. Wang died so ro-

Hornell on the honour which was cently that I will not dwell on the of the future to the Hon. Foo Ping Majesty the King is recognition of From the building up of the China recently conferred upon him by His hitterness of that tragic event. It Sheung is a transition at once easy his fine work in connection with fell to me to say over his grave and obvious. The Hon. Foo Ping the University, (Aplapuse,) that he left behind him the memory Sheung was born on the 18th Feb know of no one who is more deserv of a life of unostentatious loyalty runty, 1806, at Fat Shan, a suburbing of such an honour and no one and devotion. I will leave it at of Canton. His father was Foo whose receipt of it could have given that; for I know that there is in Shin, a Chinese scholar. He was the hearts of all of you, the pro- brought up by his uncle, Foo Sik, ernor.

me greater pleasure," said the Gov- | foundest sympathy for his widow a well-known merchant of Hong

and his now fatherless children.

His Excellency concluded his re- The year 1030 saw the completion went to the Ellis Kadeoric School, honour was conferred on Bir William Kong. In 1006 Mr. Ping Sheung Foo marks by saying that although the and opening of the new Biological which he left in 1910 for St. Hornell, it was to a certain extent Department on which the name of Stephen's College. From St. Stean honour to the whole University Kwok Siu Lau will soon be em phen's College he passed in 1912 to as they must have derived pleasure blazoned. The year also witnessed this University, where he graduated from the lustre of it (Applause) the starting of a new building, now in due course as a Bachelor of under construction, a building which Science will bear the name Tang Chi awarded by the. London Ascasors, in Engineering, being Ngong. A clock in memory of the Firat Class Honours. In 1917, he late, Sir Paul Chator, one of the went as an assistant engineer to University's benefactors and its first the Shanghai - Hangohow - Ningpo Hon, Treasurer, has also been in Railway. He then returned to Hong stalled in the Tower. This clock Kong and taught for a year at St. we owe to the generosity of the Stephen's College, his old school. Armenian Church in Calcutta, Sir 1016-10 he was working in Canton Paul's birthplace. Sir Henry Golian as Head of the Bureau of Printing has left us, but the memory of his of the Military Government there wise counsels, of his devotion to and as Secretary to the Ministry of "Degroo of Bachelor of Medicine the University and of the warmth Foreign Affairs, which was then pre and Bachelor of Burgery-Joseph of his gracious geniality is still sided over by the late Dr. Wa Ting William Barnes, Jan Boen Koey, here. Our roader in history has ro Fang. In this capacity he went to Lam Ohi Wie, Miss Leung Chum signed to our great regret, He the Paris Peace Conference admits that he was happy in his Secretary of the Chinese Dolega du Roza, Miss Parrin Ruttonjec, as Ha, Mok Hing Fai, Carlos Eugenio work here and that he feels the tion. From 1920-1922, he worked Granville Francis de Souza, Sze severance of his connection with the as Superintendent of Customs and Tsung Sing, Tan Tiong Lam, Teoi University. But the indy to whom Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Ter Shek, Won Kai Fun. he has become bethrothed decided Kuingchow and Pakhoi. that, not even for the sake of marry

In 1923 In Abacatia-Miss Pau Choi ing Mr. Hughes, would she consent to live in, exile. Perhaps she in -right-time alone will show. us at least hope that the Univer

Let Bity's loss will bo her gain and that of her native land to which sho is so devotedly attached. It will not surprise my Celtic friends to learn that the lady's native land

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LIST OF GRADUATES.

Mrs. J. M. Xavier again appear. day on the charge of having at- ed before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yester tempted to murder Mr. A. J. Man [ton" at 416, Lockhart Road ca December 7 by firing at him with a revolver.

revolver and five rounds of am munition in her posscasion without An additional pharge of having a

a perinit from the Inspector-General. of Police was handed in by Detec Live Sub-Inspector Murphy, but the Magistrate directed that the charge.

feared the following degrees

H.E the Governor then con case...

be deferred until the bearing of the

causa:-Tho

Degres of Doctor of Laws, honoris ton was out of danger, but would It was mentioned that Mr. Man.

Sheung B.Bc. (Eng.).

Hon. Foo Ping not be out of hospital for two weeks. Mrs. Xavier was again formally Degree of Doctor of Medicine: romanded for a week. Dr. Yeoh Kok Cheang, M.B., B.B., D.P.H. (Camb.), DTM, and H. (Eng.).

ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A DOG.

VETINARY SURGEON'S

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Chen Fah Shin, Kob Nye Poh, Poo Shi Wan village, he heard the the Civil Governor Engineering:-Chan Weng Kwan, that while he was on duty at Ngau

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