Harbour Undertaking to be Completed in 1938
Singapore, Oct. 20, Rapid progress is being made on the "Singapore harbour extension, scheme, which is to cost 1,200,000, 'When the new wharves are' completed, Singapore will have one of the most imposing dock-lines in the East, extending over throe miles, Two of the wharves will be ready for use early next year, and the whole Undertaking wil "be completed "in lant cranes are now handing the twenty-ton block of concrete form: {ng the foundations of the Whnevesr White the locks are being Towered tothe asks bottom der descend telephone.
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Sharks frequently swim round the sivers, and one men recently had {ult ripped opened by " monster. The fen have "now been armed vith that "knives to. ward off atacka Reuter, way to China, Missionaries who had left for China, or were leaving within the next few months, ineluded:—Maj. H. 1, Weight, Milas B. 8. tina, and Mrs. 'A. J. Watson (South China): Miss I. F. and Miss M. J, F. Frindley, ind the Rev. E. M. and' Mrs, 'Norton (Fukien); the Rev. W. RO. and 'Mrs. 'Taylor, Miss 'M. Garnett' and Miss G.'M. Churchill (Chekiang); and Miss G, B. Belcher, Miss E.G. Elder, Miss E. Fugl, and Miss L, Whitworth (Western China), The Ven. V. H, Donnithorne (Archdeacon in Western China) said that in a couple of days he and Mrs, Donnithorne would be well on their way back to China, and three months hence would be back in the old life, living alone with two white people in a great Chinese city. In an old Chinese house which was a converted }temple, and in a world in which them. would hear, speak and see nothin but Chinese, a world in which Euros and England would seem to have diminished to a pin point. Out there the great world was the world of 'China, and Europe looked very smal! from that distance. Out there they would meet again' the same old glorious opportunities, in the richest Province of China which was yet open to the gospel,
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