At Red China’s Border

E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

In the last days of December 1957 Sir Alexander Grantham, the British Governor of Singapore, took a tearful farewell of the people of Hong Kong. A solemn ceremony took place in the sport stadium and Sir Tsui-in Chan, a social leader of the Chinese community, seconded by Lady Chan, offered to the departing Governor a check for the Grantham scholarship providing the gifted offspring of indigent Hong Kongers with the means for a higher education. It was a most moving scene, and 30,000 people, mostly Chinese from Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, sang “For he’s a jolly good fellow.” Here, at long last, is a place where the “twain” who “never shall meet” are coming together and where the foundations of a Free China are being laid, though with different means than in Formosa.

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E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

In the last days of December 1957 Sir Alexander Grantham, the British Governor of Singapore, took a tearful farewell of the people of Hong Kong. A solemn ceremony took place in the sport stadium and Sir Tsui-in Chan, a social leader of the Chinese community, seconded by Lady Chan, offered to the departing Governor a check for the Grantham scholarship providing the gifted offspring of indigent Hong Kongers with the means for a higher education. It was a most moving scene, and 30,000 people, mostly Chinese from Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories, sang “For he’s a jolly good fellow.” Here, at long last, is a place where the “twain” who “never shall meet” are coming together and where the foundations of a Free China are being laid, though with different means than in Formosa.