A very interesting discussion is likely to be heard on the subject of the Boxer Indemnity, the remission of which has been decided on in principle The sum of money available is a large one—some £11,000,000—and a variety of different claims on it have to be considered. There is the claim of Hongkong University; there is the possibility of establishing scholarships from that University to Universities in Great Britain; there is the view that a new University should be founded in Central China; there are the claims of British hospitals; and there are the claims of British secondary schools. A very considerable number of these latter, including such important institutions as the Anglo-Chinese College, Tientsin, Griffith John College, Hankow, Wesley College, Wuchang, Medhurst College, Shanghai, Westminster College, Chuanchow, Trinity College, Foochow, and the United Methodist College, Wenchow, are receiving grants made to them from the Associated British Chambers of Commerce fund. These grants have been given for a period of five years and vary ili amount, the largest being -grants for $5,000. Most of them have been given for the definite purpose of strengthening the British teaching staff, and of ren-
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