Meotings in the Japanese language will begin on Saturday, the 19th instant. The following daily meetings will be held: at 620 am. a Bible class, in the Holiness Japanese Church, and at 7.30 pin, evangoistic services in the" Alliance Mission, 106 North Szechuen Road. On Sunday, the 20th, in the Holiness Jepanese Church, there will be Sur ay School at 8.30 a.m.; preaching, with communion and baptism at 10 am, and also a meeting at 2 pin. On Tuesday, the 22nd, at 3p.m,, Prof. Kurumada will address the Japanese College in Hungjao Road. On Wednesday at 2 pin. a meeting willie held at the Nagai Wata Kaisha Cotton Mills (On Thursday at 2 p.m. will be a ladies' meeting the "Japanese Congregational. Church. On Friday at 7 pin. a special meeting will be held at the Toyoda Cotton Mill. Prof. Kurumada must return to Japan at the end of the week.
Friends of these visitors will We understand that Gol. W. Gordon intends to relinquish his command of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in February, and that as his [successor Col, H.B-H. Orpen-Palmer, €M.G, DS.0, who was formerly, British Military Attache in peking, tas been chosen, to succeed him.
The selection by the British War Office of Col, Orpen-Palmer,. will give a distinct thrill of pleasure to those who knew Col. Orpen-Palmer as British Military Attache in Peking a few years ago. The prospec severs in this country travel= tive "Commandant. not only sent
Ting widely, and will not, therefore, ave to be introduced to China and ways, Dut has a great number of friends in thiel community as well aa in the north so that no time hor "formality will be wasted making him an' integral "part of Shanghai,
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