One of the chief buildings of interest going on at present is the Catholic Church in the Legation quarter. This is being erected for the benefit of the large Catholic population, mostly military, resident there, and lies south of the New Club in what used be be called Custom's Street, but now figures as Thomann Strasse.
The Annual Meetings of the American Board Mission are in session here this week, and a large number of missionaries have gathered from Kalgan, P'angebuang, Tientsin, and other places to discuss the atiairs of the mission.
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