London, Sept. 18.
The tragic death of the Rev. RK. Evans, the Chinese missionary, by drowning near Barmouth, is a reminder that at St. Etienne in France there is a spot "For Ever-China." since the time when he went out from Mansfield College, Oxford, to China for the London Missionary' Society, identified himself in the greatest possible fashion with every phase of Chinese! life. Although his lot had been mainly cast among the students in Peking, it seemed quite nature that he should accompany the Chinese coolies who came to France during the war, and it was with regard to the work of one or two like himself that Colonel Fairfax, Advisor for Chinese Labour, had in mind when he said that without such help the Corps would have gone to pieces.
Mr. Evans was determined that} the memory of those Chinese who never returned to their native land should be commemorated, and it! was due almost entirely to his efforts that not only is there a memorial to them at St. Etienne, but that its design is characteris: tically Chinese.
Mr. Evan's wife, by the way, w born at Peking when her father, the late Dr. Hopkyn Rees, Professor of Chinese, London University, was missionary there. Before her marriage she for three years acted as governess both to the children of Yuan Shi first. President of the Chinese Republic, and Tang Shao-yi, the Minister of the Republic,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.