Sir Charles Addis in a speech expressed thanks for the conferment of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and said he believ-i lar-flung outpost Empire, the foundations had been well and truly laid of an Imperial university which, a long while after its founders had passed from the scene, would stand as a living organism to uphold, in their growing complexity, the highest traditions of British learning and education in their relation tg the moral, intellectual and aesthetic needs of the colony of Hongkong and of the allied and friendly country of China.
"We shall have been foiled in our purpose" he continued, "if it fails to promote the solidarity of both races and serve as an instrument binding still more closely the ties which should unite them in their effort to attain peace within their respective _borders.'' Continuing, Sir Charles Addis said that for the most part, British and Chinese interests were identical. China's interests," he added, "are our interests, her prosperity is our prosperity and her peace our peace. I have said that a remedy is simple but I have not said that it is ea: There are, and I am afraid always will be, those who are apt with sneers, innuendo and covert suggestion to seck to sow seeds of strife and diseavd between the twa friendly nations, but T am certain that by mutual forbearance, pati-
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