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UNIVERSITIES BUREAU OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Chairman-

WILL SPENS CRE MA J. S. B. STOPFORD, M.D., Sc.D,

Secretary-

W. B. BRANDER, C.LE., C.B.E.

All communications to be addressed to the Secretary.

Your Ref: (F 5085/3262/10)

Hon. Treasurer➡ W. CULLEN, LL.D

17005

Enter F

Telegraphic Address: “Uniburb, London.”

Telephone: Euston 5164.

88a Gower Street

(In Torrington Place),

London, W.C.1.

6th July, 1939.

300

7

JUL 1939

My dear Sir Stephen,

I did not acknowledge receipt of your letter of

27th June, regarding Chinese Indemnity scholars studying in

this country because, before doing so, I wished to consult

the Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Princi-

pals.

./.

We are agreed that as regards Chinese Indemnity

scholars other than those in the University of London no

action is necessary as, in the event of war, they will pre-

sumably remain in their Universities or will leave this

country.

I have heard it mentioned that a number of them

will go to the United States.

As regards the students in London, I am now writing

to the University of London asking them to what extent arrange-

ments can be made for the evacuation of Chinese Indemnity

scholars from the various colleges of the University to the

receiving Universities. You may be interested in the attached

list of Boxer Indemnity scholars studying in the University of

London. I shall inform you in due course of the numbers for

which provision can be made in other Universities.

The engineering apprentices who have come here under

the auspices of the Federation of British Industries are, of

course, no concern of the Bureau. I suggest as regards these

the Universities China Committee, 16, Gordon Square, W.C. 1.,

should be consulted.

Sir Stephen Gaselee, K.C.M.G.,

C.B.E.,

S.W. 1.

Yours sincerely,

ws, hair.

Secretary.

Foreign Office,

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