Mr. D. E. Hoste i too well known fin Shanghai to need any words of mine. After long and fruitful service in North China, where he was associated with the famous Chinese Pastor LIG, he came to Shanghai and has long been the honoured Director of the China Inland Mir sion, having succeeded Dr. J. Hudson Taylor, the founder of the mission. Mr. Hoste is a man great ly beloved; hhix sound judgment, his humour, and his deep spirituattty, fare qualities which mark him as a leader of men and make him attrac-
The coming of the "Cambridge Seven" prepared the way for the "hundred" who arrived in. 1887 in beginning of their inter Chinese to the influence, directly or indirectly, of the famous missionary band.
The party consisted of the individuals here named. Mr. C. T. Studd, BA, a member of a well-known cricketing family. He was one tinie Captain of the Cambridge Eleven, and a prominent member the All-England Eleven.
Mr. Stanley P. Smith, so, 2 first-rate oarsman, who was stroke of the Cambridge Eight in 1882, 'The Rev. W. W. Cassels, -3s., who was curate of All-Saints', South Lambeth.
Mr. D. E. Hoste, an officer in the Royal Artillery, who resigned his commission in A big piece of granite, meaguring three feet in length and weighing several pounds, wax forced by blasting charge at Morrison Hill through the window of the Civil Service Club, Hongkong, on the night of November 10, narrowly missing a number of members who were inthe Club room, A lengthy article in "Russia" devoted to the Far Eastern Cossack Group under Gen. Gleboff com-merices with the assertion that "this is tig only politico-military Russian organization in the Far East that has retained its political unity." Tt has also a "territory" lof its own, on board the transport [Okhotak, which leq near Woostng, fying the old imperial naval flag. The Bolshevist Consul-General has Jagain made one of his periodical protests to the Chinese authorities {in connexion with; the vessel's being permitted to remain in, Shangh. as the property.ef she Waites.
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