The Archive · 1934

Chinese Students for Abroad

Larger Number for Advanced Studies This Year More Chinese students leave for abroad to further their studies this year than for several years, according {o statistics available at the World's Chinese Students' Federation, Including the 26 students sent to Englund by the Board of Trustees for the Administration of the Boxer Indemnity Funds remitted by the British, Government, the total number students going abroad this year is well over 200, which is 50 per cent, more than the average number since 1931, The 26 students sent to England by the Board sailed on the P, & 0. s, Ranpura on Tus 0 the success of some hundreds of Chinese from all over China who took pi in a very stiff competitive examina they are to educational course at special schools and univer sities, The group, two of whom are were seen off ents' Federation at the Customs Jetty.

Thirty minutes after the departure of this group, another group consist Ing of 44 students, left the Custom Jetty in a Dollar tender for the Pre dent Grant on which they led for the United States in the afternoon, Mr. P. K. Chu, Secretary General of the Federation, also went on board to see that proper arrangements had been made for them.

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