It is to the efforts of British merchants on behalf of Chinese education that the remission of our share of the Indemnity is finally due. The merchants suffered great loss of goods in the Boxer rising: missionaries in China suffered in person; and it is only right that aid should be given to all schools, of whatever creed, trying to combine character and right conduct with sound learning, and who stand in need of financial assistance.
Many no doubt will be the claimants to bounty; and many the advisers. Of those qualified to advise none are better equipped than the Rev. William Soothill, Professor of Chinese at Oxford, who from the year 1882 worked in China as a missionary, and was the founder of schools and colleges.
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