Association is in the midst of a financial and membership campaign. Twenty-five or thirty Chinese oili-Gt and business men agreed to underwrite $200 apiece, and efforts are now being made to get in a large number of new members. The foreign secretaries Messrs. Wear and Watkins, are strong mei but there is need of strengthening the Chinese staff.
Dr. J. W. Lowrie, the Chairman vf the China Council of the American Presbyterian Mission, has retly come io Yumnanfu with t! intention of visiting western section of the province ahunt 20 days journey from here. ihe Presbyterian missionaries in Siam, working among the Ty have followed those people up into this province, end are wishing to expand this work. To this end they must have Chinese-speak: missionaries, and Dr. Lowrie has set out to visit that region with a. view to organizing 9 li-lingual mission there. But the southwest road is very dangerous, and it seems unlikely that he will be permitted to go.
On Thanksgiving Day the American Consul, M.S. Myers, and Mrs. Myers invited the American community to their home to a bountiful Thanksgiving dinner. They have recently moved into a new and commodious property outside the Suath Gate. The British Consul and Mrs. H. E. Sly have been renovating the British Consulate. Ghe chev. and Mrs. Ronald Lankester of the Church Mission Society have recently returned from Home.
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