Oct. 11, WE are sure that very general support will be given by the British community of Shanghai to the arrangements which the Missions to Seamen are making to institute an annual National Service for Seafarers at the Cathedral. The practice was begun in London as far back as the year 1905, through the initiative of. Captain Hubbard, R.N.R., late of the Union Castle Line; and every year since then, except once during the war, an annual service has been held in St. Paul's Cathedral. The service is entirely undenominational, and the phrase ''for Seafarers' has been adopted, in order to include men of the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine alike. Representatives of both, in large numbers, as well og fishermen, boys from training ships and the general public have thronged St. Paul's every year. The object of the service is To bring together members of the Sea Services of all ranks and denominations, past, present and
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